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Translations and Poems

Written on Several Occasions [by Samuel Boyse]

Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

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1.

Part of Psalm XLII.

Canticles Chap. V. v. 16, Paraphras'd.

John Chap. XXI. v. 17. Paraphras'd.

The Lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan.

The Speech of Galgacus.

Responsio M. Catonis ad Labienum,

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ODES of Horace.

Book I. Ode XI.

Book I. Ode XXII.

Book I. Ode XXVI.

Book I. Ode XXXI.

Book I. Ode XXXVIII.

Book III. Ode XXVI.

Book IV. Ode V.

Book IV. Ode II.

Claudian. (de Somniis.)

Catullus. (de Sepulchro suo.)

Propertius. (de Uxoribus Indis.)

Ex Corn. Galli Eleg. II. (Ad Uxorem.)

Sannazarii Epigramma in Venetiam.

In Mortem Jo. Bapt. Moliere, Histrionis Celeberrimi Epigramma.

In Fontes Lutetiæ. Epigramma Santeuil.

In Regiam Sagittariorum Cohortem, Anno MDCCXXXII.

Placet de M. Voiture.

Chanson de Moliere Dans les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantee.

ODE De Messire Jaques Chastelard, Savoyard qui fut decapite a Edinbourg, pour l'amour de Marie Reine d'Ecosse.

Epigrame de M. Boileau, Addresse a Perrault.

The Descent of Orpheus.

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I.

NATURE: A POEM.

Love and Majesty.

The Force of Love.

To the Author, with Cato and Tamerlane.

To Mr. Aikman, On a Piece of his Painting.

On the Retreat of King Stanislaus, and the Surrendry of Dantzick, 1734.

On the Marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, 1733.

On the Birth of Princess Augusta,

To the Author of the Polite Philosopher.

To his Grace Cosmo Duke of Gordon,

To the Right Honourable Susanna Countess of Eglinton, 1734.

To the Right Honourable The Lady Elizabeth Gordon,

To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Kinnaird.

RETIREMENT: A POEM.

Written in the ancient Palace of Falkland, Sept. 1735.

To Mr. William Cumming going to France, in August 1735.

To Mr. Monro, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh.

To the Author Of Universal Beauty.

On the Death of Mrs. Stuart of Cardiness,

To the Honourable The Lady Susanna Montgomery.

To Mr. Henry Tonge, Student in the University of Edinburgh.

To the Honourable Sir John Clerk, Baronet,

To the Same, With Nature, a Poem.

THE Tears of the Muses:

THE OLIVE: AN Heroic ODE.

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II.

Apollo and Daphne.

Phoebus mistaken.

Susanna and Lucretia.

On the following Motto of An eminent fraudulent Bankrupt at Edinburgh.

The Golden Rule.

Justice, why Blind?

Written in Lord Dorset's Poems.

Stanzas occasioned by Mr. Pope 's Translation of Horace, Book IV. Ode I.

To a young Lady,

To a Lady on a single Patch.

Written in Mr. Thomson' s Essays on Liberty.

To CLARISSA, With a Rose-Bud.

To Marinda singing.

On the military Procession of The Royal Company of ARCHERS,

To a Gentleman,

The best Cosmetic for the Ladies.

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III.

The Anniversary Mourner.

Stanzas to a CANDLE.

The Farewell to Friendship!

The Author's Epitaph.

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Epigrame de M. Boileau, Addresse a Perrault.

Translated.

Perrault, I hear proclaims it every where
I owe my Life to his Quack-Uncle's Care;
To shew how well he can invent a Lye,
There needs no Proof—for all his Patients die!