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Original poems on several subjects

In two volumes. By William Stevenson

Stevenson, William (ca. 1719-1783)

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I.

An HYMN TO THE DEITY.

THE THEORY OF TEARS.

THE PROGRESS OF EVENING; OR, THE POWER OF VIRTUE.

RURAL SPORTS, Descriptive and Elegiac.

From PHANOR, A Lover with a small Patrimony,

EPILOGUE On the same Occasion.

To the Author of Douglas and Agis.

On the Ruins of an old ELM.

To Doctor AKENSIDE.

To Miss J---y T---tt---r, Appearing often at her Window with her Hat on.

Miss G---tt to the Author;

To DANIEL N---, Esq

ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ.

On a Foreigner's losing a considerable Sum of Money at a Gaming-table with a Sharper.

On an Author who pleaded Poverty as an excuse for Printing.

To A CLERGYMAN Too fond of appearing in Print.

II.

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ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ.

How proud this rule adorns each shelf,
To hearts unknown, man, “know thyself;”
For thus, self knowledge and self-love
Not friends, but foes, commutual prove!
Who then this precept can practise?
To know one's self, is to despise.