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Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose

By George Jeffreys

Jeffreys, George,1678-1755

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[dedication]

VERSES TO THE AUTHOR.

Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.

VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.

VERSES occasioned by the Solemnity of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.

Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.

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.

Song.

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.

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.

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.

[She comes, the Saint to whom I bow]

She comes, the Saint to whom I bow,
And either Sex alarms;
Where are your hearts, ye Heroes, now?
Ye Beauties, where your charms?

Undone Philander to adore
This all-subduing Fair!
Well mayst thou love; but hope no more,
Where thousands must despair.

In uncorrupted Nature's prime
Thy passion had been bless'd,
Ere humble vows became a crime,
And constancy a jest.

But now, by wealth secure to move,
Gay Damon strikes her eyes;
Philander runs the race of love,
But Damon wins the prize.

Ah! charming Beauty! heavenly Bloom!
How quickly are they lost!
How cheaply sold! the common doom
Of what we value most.

Gold for his toys and homely ware
The Merchant sees return'd;
Gold is the toy that buys the Fair,
While love and truth are scorn'd.