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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 A FINE, PROMISING BOY, WHO DIED, AFTER A LONG AND EXCRUCIATING ILLNESS.

SURE is the truth; though hid from mortal sight;
“Whatever is, is,” ultimately, “right.”
Friends may lament; but he, who early dies,
Quits earth, and misery, for the blissful skies.
He, whose existence, woes, and joys contrast,
More charming feels the present by the past.
Here lies the frame terrestrial of a boy,
Mature, through torment, for the realms of joy.
Though young, he practised his Redeemer's mind,
The prayer, pathetic, but the will, resigned:
Now purer rapture gives his soul a flow
Which unembodied spirits only know;
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With such a rapture, 'midst the heavenly train,
He thanks his Maker for his previous pain.
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