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The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge

Including several pieces never before published: with an account of his life and character, by his son, George Owen Cambridge
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

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ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERICK PRINCE OF WALES:
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES,
  
LEARNING:
  
SOCIETY;
  
TOBACCO;
  
ARCHIMAGE;
  
AN APOLOGY FOR WRITING VERSE;
  
TO WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Esq.
  
TO LORD BATHURST.
  
THE DANGER OF WRITING VERSE;
  
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN LORD DUCIE AND HIS HORSE.
  
THE AUTHOR TO THE SCRIBLERIAD.
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THE SCRIBLERIAD:
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THE SCRIBLERIAD.
 I. 
BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
 IV. 
BOOK IV.
 V. 
BOOK V.
 VI. 
BOOK VI.
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES,
  
A DIALOGUE
  
THE INTRUDER.
  
THE FABLE OF JOTHAM:
  
THE FAKEER:
  
AN ELEGY
  
A DIALOGUE
  
VERSES
  
ON THE APPOINTMENT OF LORD TEMPLE TO BE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.
  
AGAINST INCONSTANCY;
  
TO Mr. WHITEHEAD,
  
EPILOGUE SPOKEN AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE,
  
EPILOGUE SPOKEN AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE,
  
A DIALOGUE
  
TO OZIAS HUMPHRY, Esq.
  
Mr. WILKES'S SOLILOQUY,
  
ON PAINTING;
  
ON SEEING THE HEAD OF Sir ISAAC NEWTON,
  
TO A LADY WHO WAS VERY HANDSOME,
  
A PARODY OF ACHILLES' SPEECH,
  
A PARODY ON “DEATH AND THE LADY;”
  
AN INVITATION TO A BALL AT LADY COOPER'S:
  
ANSWER.
  
THE PROGRESS OF LIBERTY.
  
ON SEEING THIS MOTTO TO A FRENCH PAPER: “DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.”
  
TO A FRIEND
  
A FREE TRANSLATION OF BOILEAU;
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EPIGRAMS.
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1.
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2. ON MEETING AT MR. GARRICK'S
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3. QUIN'S DEATH.
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4. ACTEON NO CUCKOLD.
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5. IMITATION OF SHAKSPEARE.
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6. THE HISTORIAN IN LOVE:
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7. OCCASIONED BY THE CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH TOWARDS THE POPE IN THE YEAR 1794.
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8. ON SEEING A DECENT-LOOKING YOUNG WOMAN COME DOWN A STAIRCASE IN CLEMENT'S-INN:
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9. TO A YOUNG FRIEND,
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10. LINES GIVEN EXTEMPORE
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11. THE FOLLOWING FRENCH LINES
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13. ON SEEING A TAPESTRY CHAIR-BOTTOM BEAUTIFULLY WORKED BY HIS DAUGHTER FOR MRS. HOLROYD.
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14. A TRANSLATION
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The WORLD.
  
[Ye sages say, who know mankind]

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How shall I feel, when Sol resigns his light
To this proud splendid goddess of the night!
Then, when her aukward guests in measure beat
The crouded floors, which groan beneath their feet!
What thoughts in solitude shall then possess
My tortur'd mind, or soften my distress!
Not all that envious malice can suggest
Will soothe the tumults of my raging breast.
(For envy's lost amidst the numerous train,
And hisses with her hundred snakes in vain)
Though with contempt each despicable soul
Singly I view,—I must revere the whole.
The methodist in her peculiar lot,
The world forgetting, by the world forgot,
Though single happy, tho' alone is proud,
She thinks of heav'n (she thinks not of a crowd)
And if she ever feels a vap'rish qualm,
Some Drop of Honey, or some holy balm,
The pious prophet of her sect distils,
And her pure soul seraphic rapture fills;
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Grace shines around her with serenest beams,
And whisp'ring Whitf---d prompts her golden dreams.
 

The title of a book of devotion.

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