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Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose

By George Jeffreys
Jeffreys, George,1678-1755
 
[epigraph]
 
[dedication]

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VERSES TO THE AUTHOR.
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Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.
 
VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.
 
VERSES occasioned by the Solemnity of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.
 
An Epitaph.
 
On the Resurrection.
 
Ramillies,
 
A Fragment.
 
Epigram.
 
Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.
 
Epigram.
 
On Blenheim-House.
 
Song.
 
Another.
 
On the Death of Parthenia.
 
An ODE from Sappho, English'd.
 
A Song.
 
The Beginning of Lucan, Book 8. English'd.
 
Part of Lucan, Book IX. English'd.
 
The Sixteenth of May.
 
Epigram.
 
Horace, Book II. Ode 5. English'd.
 
Horace, Book II. Ode 9. Imitated.
 
On Jealousy.
 
Song.
 
Epigram.
 
From Ausonius.
 
To Serena.
 
Epigram.
 
Song.
 
From Catullus.
 
To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato.
 
Riddle.
 
Song.
 
An ODE, on the Death of Charles XII. King of Sweden.
 
Song.
 
Another.
 
ODE.
 
On the Death of Monimia.
 
On the Earl of Oxford's Enlargement.
 
Written in a Lady's Tunbridge Miscellanies.
 
ODE for New-year's-day, 1720.
 
On a Gentleman who ran mad with Love of a Physician's Daughter.
 
Epilogue to Money the Mistress,
 
Epitaph, On the Rev. Dr. Drelincourt, Dean of Armagh;
 
Prologue, design'd for the Adelphi, in 1720.
 
Horace, Epode IV. Imitated.
 
Song.
 
To Mrs. Cibber,
 
Epigram.
 
To Belinda,
 
Epigram.
 
The Borlace:
 
The Peach Stone.
 
Epigram.
 
Prologue, spoken by Mrs. Brett,
 
Prologue, design'd for Merope.
 
ODE from the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.
 
ODE.
 
To Eliza,
 
On the Essays on Man.
 
Epigram.
 
On the Shell-work in Berkshire.
 
On a Lady's Hand-writing.
 
On the Marriage of Sir Edward Turner and Miss Leigh.
 
On a Lady from India, who loves Bathing.
 
A Riddle of Dean Swift's, versified.
 
From the French.
 
From the same Language,
 
On the Birth of Sir Edward Turner's Son.
 
To Urania,
 
Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire.
 
From the French Opera of Orpheus.
 
To a Lady.
 
To the same.
 
To a Lady on her Birth-day, March 31.
 
To Veneroni's Dictionary,
 
A Riddle.
 
To a Gentleman,
 
To the same,
 
On a Lady's bidding a certain Person look in the Glass.
 
The Farewel.
 
A Dialogue between a Marquess and a Saint.
 
The Drum.
 
Horace, Ode VI. Book I.
 
Horace, Ode XIII. Book I.
 
Horace, Ode IV. Book IV.
 
Epigram.
 
Another.
 
Another.
 
A Fable.
 
Prologue to Esther, a Tragedy;
 
The Story of Phaeton.
 
Father Francis and Sister Constance.
 
Chess:
 
The Happy Pair;
 
Epigram, To the Memory of Peter Alexiowitz,

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Song.

[If there be]

If there be
Joy for me,
More than that of roving,
'Tis a Wife
During life,
Dearly lov'd, and loving.
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Glorious prize,
Would she rise!
To this one endeavour,
Luck, be true;
Then adieu
Lotteries for ever.
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