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The Works of Richard Savage

... With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Samuel Johnson. A New Edition
Savage, Richard

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THE WANDERER:
  
THE BASTARD:
  
VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LADY VISCOUNTESS TYRCONNEL'S RECOVERY AT BATH.
  
AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.
  
THE PROGRESS OF A DIVINE:
  
OF PUBLIC SPIRIT IN REGARD TO PUBLIC WORKS:
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POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
  
TO MR. JOHN DYER, A PAINTER,
  
VERSES SENT TO AARON HILL, ESQ.
  
PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE REVIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE'S KING HENRY VI.
  
THE ANIMALCULE.
  
TO MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD,
  
AN APOLOGY TO BRILLANTE,
  
An EPISTLE TO MRS. OLDFIELD, OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL.
  
VERSES, OCCASIONED BY READING MR. AARON HILL'S POEM CALLED GIDEON.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BESSY, COUNTESS OF ROCHFORD,
  
TO THE EXCELLENT MIRANDA, CONSORT OF AARON HILL, ESQ.
  
VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY.
  
THE GENTLEMAN.
  
CHARACTER OF THE REV. JAMES FOSTER.
  
THE POET'S DEPENDANCE ON A STATESMAN.
  
AN EPISTLE TO DAMON AND DELIA.
  
TO MISS M--- H---,
  
ON THE RECOVERY OF A LADY OF QUALITY FROM THE SMALL-POX.
  
THE FRIEND.
  
AN EPISTLE TO MR. JOHN DYER, AUTHOR OF GRONGAR-HILL,
  
VERSES. OCCASIONED BY THE VICE-PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY-HALL, OXFORD,
  
FULVIA.
  
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY.
  
THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY.
  
E GRÆCO RUF.
  
THE EMPLOYMENT OF BEAUTY.
  
VERSES SENT TO MRS. BRIDGET JONES,
  
ON FALSE HISTORIANS:
  
A CHARACTER.
  
EPITAPH ON MRS. JONES,
  
VALENTINE'S DAY.
  
TO JOHN POWELL, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
LONDON AND BRISTOL DELINEATED.

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VERSES. OCCASIONED BY THE VICE-PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY-HALL, OXFORD,

BEING PRESENTED BY THE HON. MRS. KNIGHT, TO THE LIVING OF GOSFIELD IN ESSEX.

While by mean arts, and meaner patrons rise
Priests, whom the learned and the good despise;
This sees fair Knight, in whose transcendant mind,
Are wisdom, purity, and truth enshrin'd.
A modest merit now she plans to lift,
Thy living, Gosfield, falls her instant gift.
Let me (she said) reward alone the wise,
And make the church-revenue virtue's prize.
She sought the man of honest, candid breast,
In faith, in works of goodness, full exprest;
Tho' young, yet tut'ring academic youth
To science moral, and religious truth.
She sought where the disinterested friend,
The scholar, sage, and free companion blend;
The pleasing poet, and the deep divine,
She sought, she found, and, Hart! the prize was thine.
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