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Miscellanies (1785)

(1749-1814)

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VOLUME I.
  
[dedication]
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SYMPATHY, A POEM.
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY,
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY
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SYMPATHY.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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THE TEARS OF GENIUS.
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THE TEARS OF GENIUS,
  
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EPITAPH.
  
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THE ART OF RISING ON THE STAGE.
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III.
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POEMS FROM THE ANNUAL REGISTER.
  
THE PARTRIDGES:
  
TO AN INFANT,
  
EXTRACTED FROM VERSES,
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POETICAL PIECES FROM LIBERAL OPINIONS.
  
ELEGY OF A NIGHTINGALE,
  
EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG.
  
ALMERIA;
  
SOLILOQUIES OF A HIGHWAYMAN.
  
ODE TO A SCHOOL-FELLOW.
  
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,
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EPITAPHS.
  
EPITAPH ON ------
  
TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN DRUMMOND, A BRAVE YOUNG OFFICER.
  
EPITAPH
  
SILVANA, THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERDESS.
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BALLAD POEMS FROM EMMA CORBET, AND SONGS.
  
VERSES WRITTEN IN THE MOMENTS OF WAITING AN INTERVIEW.
  
ADDRESS TO A LOCKET.
  
WITH A PRESENT OF SOME PENS SENT TO EMMA.
  
SONG.
  
PLEASING AND TEASING.
  
SONG.
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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.
  
PROLOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. HUNTER, AT BIRMINGHAM.
  
EPILOGUE,
  
AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. SIDDONS AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FATAL INTERVIEW.
  
PROLOGUE FOR THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS. SIMPSON.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN OF CHINA.
  
EPILOGUE.
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VOLUME II.
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PRIZE POEMS,
  
STANZAS, FROM MISS SEWARD'S MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LADY MILLAR.
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THE SHADOWS OF SHAKESPEARE:
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VIII.
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XI.
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XIII.
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XX.
  
THE SYSTEM OF PYTHAGORAS.
  
THE FAMILY OF TIME:
  
TENDERNESS.
  
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.
  
ODE TO THE SUN.
  
CARDS,
  
THERON:
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.
  
THE ROSE-TREE, THE GARDENER, AND THE SHRUBS.
  
UPON THE CONNEXION OF THE AUTHOR
  
TO DOCTOR LETTSOM,
  
TO Mrs. SIDDONS's CHILDREN,
  
THE OPENING OF THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HENRIADE TRANSLATED .
  
THE CASKET. TO A FRIEND UNDER PAIN FROM A FEW POINTED OBSERVATIONS.
  
WRITTEN EXTEMPORE
  
TO MISS SAWBRIDGE.
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MRS. SHERIDAN ON HER BROTHER'S LYRE.
  
HER BROTHER's LYRE
  
LINES,
  
TIME's ANSWER.
  
TO MISS C. BRACKENBURY, OF COPT-FOLD-HALL, IN ESSEX.
  
TO THE SAME,
  
A SILFPHID's GREETING,
  
THE TWO LEECHES
  
THE PASSION FLOWER
  
ACREONTIC BURLESQUE.
  
A PORTRAIT.
  
A LOVER'S QUARREL.

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But sordid fouls are ever in distress,
To bless himself each must a second bless;
Then kindle on 'till he the world embrace,
And in love's Cæstus gird the human race.
Thus social grief can finer joys impart
Than the dull pleasures of a miser's heart:
Thus with more force can melancholy warm,
Than wild ambition's solitary charm.
And oh, just heav'n, what gift canst thou bestow,
What gem so precious as a tear for woe?
A tear more full of thee, oh pow'r divine,
Than all the dross that ripens in the mine!
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