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The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale

In two volumes
Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
  
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VOL. I.
  
THE POET;
  
POETICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  
AN ELEGY;
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THREE POEMS
  
[dedication]
  
SIDDONS:
  
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO SIR ASHTON LEVER.
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG OFFICER OF THE ARMY.
  
THE INVINCIBLE ISLAND; A POEM:
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POEMS.
  
[dedication]
  
TO EDMUND WALLER, ESQ. Of Hall-Barn, in Buckinghamshire,
  
A SONG.
  
THE RIVAL FLOWERS.
  
TO MRS. JORDAN.
  
THE BLUE EYE.
  
AN ANSWER TO THE ENCOMIUM ON THE BLUE EYE.
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VERSES ADDRESSED TO OXFORD.
  
VERSES TO A ROBIN-RED-BREAST, WHO SINGS EVERY MORNING, NEAR MY BED-CHAMBER.
  
[Here lies]
  
AN EPITAPH ON MRS. POPE.
  
AN EPITAPH ON THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE.
  
AN INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE, IN A PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL VALE IN NORTHUMBERLAND.
  
THE NAVAL FIRST OF AUGUST, 1798.
  
AN EPITAPH ON DAVID GARRICK.
  
AN EPITAPH ON A FINE, PROMISING BOY, WHO DIED, AFTER A LONG AND EXCRUCIATING ILLNESS.
  
AN EPITAPH ON PRINCE SUWARROW.
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VOL. II.
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THE AMYNTAS OF TASSO.
  
[Ye, who your minds from pageantry withdraw]
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AMYNTAS
  
THE PROLOGUE.
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ACT I.
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SCENE II.
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ACT II.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT III.
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SCENE II.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE II.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
  
POETICAL THOUGHTS, AND VIEWS; ON THE BANKS OF THE WEAR.
  
A POETICAL ADDRESS TO THE SUPREME BEING.
  
A CONFERENCE BETWIXT APOLLO AND HIS DISCIPLE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. JOHNSON'S FAVORITE CAT.
  
AN ODE TO A RIVULET;
  
ON SEEING MR. GARRICK IN DON JOHN,
  
PROLOGUE, For the School for Wives.
  
To ------
  
A PROLOGUE Spoken at Portsmouth, by MRS. HEARD,
  
THE VOLUPTUARY.
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM, JUST PUBLISHED, entitled THE DYING NEGRO.
  
TO HENRY COLLINGWOOD, SELBY, ESQ.
  
A NEW HYMN, FOR EASTER SUNDAY, 1785;
  
TO LADIES KILLING WASPS WITH OIL.
  
FRANCE;—ORLEANS;—LANSDOWNE.
  
ON MISS WILLIS.
  
VERSES TO MISS DALTON,
  
AN EPITAPH.
  
VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
  
ON MY GOING TO LIVE AT WINDSOR.
  
VERSES on THE FIRE AT CLIFDEN.
  
AN ODE, ON LORD NELSON'S VICTORY over THE DANES.
  
ON THE SECOND MEMORABLE VICTORY, AT ABOUKIR.
  
AN EPITAPH ON A VERY PRETTY AND MOST AMIABLE CAT.
  
VERSES ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
  
A POETICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF LORD NELSON
  
AN EPITAPH ON MR. PITT.
  
ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF MONMOUTHSHIRE:
  
THE PHILOSOPHER.

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AN EPITAPH ON DAVID GARRICK.

THE frost prevailing of a barbarous age,
Bœtian fogs impended on our stage;
When Shakespeare's genius, with a flood of light,
Dispelled the darkness of dramatick night:
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With a new blaze our skies this comet fired;
The fathers wondered;—but the sons admired.
Beneath it's influence; by it's powerful aid,
Our hearts, and minds completely were displayed;
Guilt fled, affrighted, from it's piercing ray;
But virtue courted it's propitious day.
By him, from nature is her sceptre torne;
Yet, on her plan, he peoples worlds unborn:
Hence pleased we view the monster of his Isle,
Contrasted with Miranda's magick smile:
The dapper elves adorn the lunar scene;
And suck the flower, or skim along the green.
But honest time must fix the poet's claim;
Must conquer malice, and perpetuate fame:
Milton, and Dryden, urged the publick praise,
By Pope led captive, with seraphick lays.
Yet the first power of Avon's swan was great;
Great was his rising, his deciding fate:
His early glory fired the coldest heart;
Even Ben despised his learning, and his art;
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Shakespeare subdued the critick's rugged mind;
Still more victorious in an age refined,
Inspiring Garrick, he subdued mankind.
Lesbury, Oct. 2d, 1799.
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