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Mr. Cooke's Original Poems

with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language
Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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PART the First, CONTAINING ESSAYS, TALES, AND A RHAPSODY On Virtue and Pleasure.
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PART the Second, CONTAINING EPISTLES, ODES, FABLES, SATIRES, LOVE-ELEGYS, PROLOGUES, EPILOGUES, and EPIGRAMS.
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EPISTLES the First, TO Mrs. COLSTON, On the Death of her only Son.
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EPISTLE the Second, TO Mr. LEONARD WELSTED, On the Death of his only Daughter.
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EPISTLE the Third, To the right honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke at Wilton.
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EPISTLE the Fourth, To the honourable Lord George Johnston.
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EPISTLE the Fifth, To the right honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke, Occasioned by The Death of Dr. Samuel Clarke.
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EPISTLE the Sixth, To the right reverend Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, On his being translated from the Bishoprick of Salisbury to Winchester.
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EPISTLE the Seventh, To his Grace The Duke of Somerset at Petworth.
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EPISTLE the Eighth, TO James Vernon Esq;
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ODES.
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ODE the First, TO Mr. John Mottley in the Country.
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ODE the Second, To Phillis.
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ODE the Third, To the Same.
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ODE the Fourth, To the Same.
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ODE the Fifth, To the Same.
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ODE the Sixth, To the Same.
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ODE the Seventh, To the Same.
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ODE the Eighth, To the Same.
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ODE the Ninth, To Celia.
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ODE the Tenth, To the Same.
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ODE the Eleventh, To Melissa.
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ODE the Twelfth, To the Same.
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ODE the Thirteenth. SYLVIA.
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ODE the Fourteenth. BELLAMIRA.
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ODE the Fifteenth. THALIA.
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ODE the Sixteenth. DINA.
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ODE the Seventeenth. LONDON.
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ODE the Eighteenth. ON THE Birth of Lord Herbert In the Year 1734.
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ODE the Nineteenth. A New Year's Ode, or Ballad, For the Year 1741.
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[FABLES.]
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[SATIRES.]
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[ELEGIES.]
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[PROLOGUES.]
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[EPILOGUES.]
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[EPIGRAMS.]
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PART the Third. THE BATTEL OF THE POETS, In Two CANTOS.
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PART the Fourth, CONTAINING PARAPHRASES, IMITATIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS, Of several Parts of the Antients.
  
Epistle the Ninth. TO Dr. Edward Milward,
  
Ode the Twentyeth. TO The honourable Master Robert Petre a Day old, 1741.
  
The Twenty-fourth Ode of the first Book of Horace imitated and paraphrased, on the Death of Sir William Windham Bart.

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ODE the Eleventh, To Melissa.

As on a Bank where Vi'lets blow,
The Shade above, a Stream below,
The Stream below, the Shade above,
Soft murm'ring to a Dream of Love,
I lay, a Nymph of heav'nly Mien,
With Voice divine, and Look serene,
Began: is this the Way to Fame,
And think you thus to raise a Name,
While here in lazy Easy you ly,
The Muses all neglected by?
No longer keep the Lyre unstrung,
Nor let Melissa live unsung:
Melissa, Glory of the Plains,
The envy'd Charmer of the Swains,
All spotless as the falling Snows,
Whose Breath is sweeter than the Rose;
Let chast Melissa fill your Lays,
Become immortal in her Praise!
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But if the Fair you never saw,
Fancy her here; begin and draw.
She spoke, and, by her Air and Mien,
Confess'd herself the Cyprian Queen.
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