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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

By Mrs. Catherine Jemmat

Jemmat, Catherine (1759-1838)

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BEAUTY and TASTE, inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of HAMILTON.

On a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland visiting the Lying-Inn Hospital there.

On the Success of Major-General JOHNSON in America.

On the late Earthquakes in ENGLAND and IRELAND.

An Apology for declining the melancholy Task of a Poem on the Death of his Serene Highness the Stadtholder.

On seeing Mr. MOSSOP perform.

A PROLOGUE at a Benefit Play for an Hospital.

Ode on SCIENCE.

A Morning REFLECTION.

On the Recovery of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount MOLESWORTH, from his Illness, in the Year 1755.

On the Invention of LETTERS and the Utility of the PRESS.

On hearing the Design of erecting a MONUMENT to the Memory of THOMAS PRIOR, Esq; by Subscription, in the Year 1751.

On the Return of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount CHARLEMONT, from his Travels, to Ireland, in the Year 1755.

An Elegy on the much-lamented Death of the Right Reverend Father in God, THOMAS, Lord Bishop of SODOR and MAN.

On the Report of Mr. SHERIDAN's giving a Benefit-Play towards defraying the Expence of Dr. SWIFT's Monument, in the Year 1752.

On Sir PETER WARREN.

The TEST, in the Year 1754.

An Answer to the TEST.

Some STANZAS from a famous Club.

The CHANGES.

To CÆLIA.

OVID's Description of NIOBE, when she heard of the Death of her Children, and ran to find their dead Bodies.

PROLOGUE, first Night, Spoken by a Young Gentleman in the Character of Cato.

PROLOGUE, second Night, Spoken by Marcia.

The Rural LASS.

The CONTENTION.

The FARMER and the HARE.

RETIREMENT.

VERSES,

The REPLY.

QUESTION, on the Art of Writing.

EPIGRAM.

Occasioned by reading of the Death of Sir CHARLES AMIAND PAWLET, the Day his Ticket, No. 40,718, was drawn the Ten Thousand Pound Prize.

To the Memory of W. D. Esq

REFLECTIONS on the Uncertainty of all Sublunary Enjoyments.

EPITAPH on a very Worthy DIVINE.

JUDITH's speech to the Elders of ISRAEL, Paraphrased.

A Description of a Cottage, rebuilt and fitted up in a Rustic Taste, by a Noble Lord.

An Encomium on the Game of BRAG.

KITTY and her Mamma; or, the New Style.

The British pickled Herring and Anchovy.

A Paraphrase on the 104th PSALM, in Imitation of MILTON's Style.

On the Death of the Right Hon. Thomas Marlay, Esq

To THOMAS SHERIDAN, Esq; on his performing the Part of ARCHER.

An EPIGRAM.

EPIGRAM.

ANOTHER.

A POEM on the Art of PRINTING.

To a young Gentleman on the Death of his FATHER.

To HIBERNIA, represented leaning on her HARP.

PROLOGUE, spoken by Mrs. WOFFINGTON, in the Character of the Tragic Muse.

A FRAGMENT, from a polite Poetical Assembly.

On the Death of a Promising Young Gentleman.

An ODE presented to a NOBLEMAN on his Birth-Day.

On Reading an Article in a News-Paper.

On Rear-Admiral WARREN being presented with the Freedom of the City of DUBLIN.

A Call to the JEWS.

TRANSLATED.

EPITAPH on a CLERGYMAN.

To Mr. MASON, on his ELFRIDA.

The following EPIGRAM on the two Betas (or B and B) written Extempore.

On General BLAKENEY's Defence of Fort St. PHILIP.

LOVE and PRUDENCE.

To the Memory of Mrs. SUSANNA MASON, Daughter of Sir JOHN MASON, Knight, after a Life of exemplary Piety.

On Mr. PELHAM's Death.

An EPIGRAM, as old as the Reign of Henry IV.

On Captain JAMES CORNWALL, by the Right Hon. Sir George Lyttleton, Bart.

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In consequence of a Vote of the House of Commons, who addressed his MAJESTY for that purpose.

The REVENGE, an EPIGRAM.

By the Reverend Mr. PULLEIN.

The BATCHELOR's Choice.

The British TULLY.

On CHLOE's Tooth-Ach.

PROLOGUE to the Tragedy of CATO.

Wrote by a GENTLEMAN, extempore, on hearing a celebrated Beauty blamed by some of her own Sex for her Sprightliness.

Inscription on the Monument of Thomas Tickel, Esq

To the Marquis of HARTINGTON.

On the Death of a Young GENTLEMAN.

On Mr. WOODWARD's Performance.

On Miss FANNY CARELESS.

On HANS BALLIE,

On Lady JUVERNA's last Marriage.

To the inimitable Mrs. WOFFINGTON, on seeing her in several Characters.

Addressed to Mrs. WOFFINGTON.

To the Memory of THOMAS PRIOR, Esq

To Mr. SOWDEN, on the close of the Year.

A PROLOGUE to JONES's ESSEX.

On ALEXANDER's FEAST being performed for a distressed Family.

On the MARRIAGE of a handsome Couple.

Rural LIFE, in an high Class.

Upon the Arrival in Dublin of the Marquis of HARTINGTON, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

On seeing Mr. BARRY perform the Parts of Othello, Romeo, Jaffier, and Castalio.

A SONG.

ANOTHER,

The FARMER.

ADVICE to the LADIES,

A CAUTION to the LADIES.

An IDEA of GOD and his POWER.

A DESCRIPTION of a Manner of LIFE.

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The FARMER and the HARE.

A TALE.

A HARE did to a garden get,
Belonging to a farm,
Where she threw up the earth, and eat,
And did some little harm.

The farmer cours'd her round and round,
But got her not away;
Puss took a liking to the ground,
And there resolv'd to stay.

Well, quoth the fellow in a fret,
Since you are grown so bold,
I shall some more assistance get,
And drive you from your hold.

And straight he sends to a young 'squire,
That he, by break of day,
Would with his pack of hounds repair,
And sport himself that way.

The 'squire, as ask'd, attended came,
With folks, and horse, and hounds,
And in pursuance of the game,
Rode over all the grounds.

They leapt and broke the hedges down,
And made most fearful waste;
They trampled all the garden round,
And kill'd poor puss at last.

At this the farmer tore his heir,
And swore most bloodily,
Z---ds! what confounded work was here,
And what a fool am I!

Not fifty hares, in fifty days,
Had so much mischief done,
As this good 'squire (whom I must praise,
And thank) hath wrought in one.