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Mr. Cooke's Original Poems

with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language
Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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PART the First, CONTAINING ESSAYS, TALES, AND A RHAPSODY On Virtue and Pleasure.
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PART the Second, CONTAINING EPISTLES, ODES, FABLES, SATIRES, LOVE-ELEGYS, PROLOGUES, EPILOGUES, and EPIGRAMS.
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EPISTLES the First, TO Mrs. COLSTON, On the Death of her only Son.
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EPISTLE the Second, TO Mr. LEONARD WELSTED, On the Death of his only Daughter.
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EPISTLE the Third, To the right honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke at Wilton.
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EPISTLE the Fourth, To the honourable Lord George Johnston.
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EPISTLE the Fifth, To the right honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke, Occasioned by The Death of Dr. Samuel Clarke.
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EPISTLE the Sixth, To the right reverend Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, On his being translated from the Bishoprick of Salisbury to Winchester.
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EPISTLE the Seventh, To his Grace The Duke of Somerset at Petworth.
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EPISTLE the Eighth, TO James Vernon Esq;
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ODES.
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[FABLES.]
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[SATIRES.]
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[ELEGIES.]
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[PROLOGUES.]
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PROLOGUE the First. To Penelope, A Burlesque Opera, performed in the Year 1728.
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PROLOGUE the Second. Spoke on opening the new Theatre in the Hay-market with Dryden's Spanish Friar.
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PROLOGUE the Third. Spoke by Mr. Henry Giffard, on opening the new Theatre in Goodman's-Fields the 31st of October 1729.
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PROLOGUE the Fourth. TO LOVE and REVENGE,
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PROLOGUE the Fifth. To the Devil to pay,
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PROLOGUE the Sixth. Spoke by Mr. Milward to the Country Wife.
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[EPILOGUES.]
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[EPIGRAMS.]
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PART the Third. THE BATTEL OF THE POETS, In Two CANTOS.
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PART the Fourth, CONTAINING PARAPHRASES, IMITATIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS, Of several Parts of the Antients.
  
Epistle the Ninth. TO Dr. Edward Milward,
  
Ode the Twentyeth. TO The honourable Master Robert Petre a Day old, 1741.
  
The Twenty-fourth Ode of the first Book of Horace imitated and paraphrased, on the Death of Sir William Windham Bart.

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PROLOGUE the Second. Spoke on opening the new Theatre in the Hay-market with Dryden's Spanish Friar.

Studious to please, but with a conscious Fear,
A Rev'rence due to the bright Circle here,
From long successful Farce we dare to stray,
And open to politer Scenes the Way.
Young to the Stage, by Emulation fir'd,
What can we not if by your Smiles inspir'd?
Here youthful Ammon shall command the Ball,
And mighty Julius here lamented fall;
Vanoc shall rage, and, crown'd with your Applause,
Cato prescribe his little Senate Laws.
Monimia wrong'd the tender Soul shall move,
And Anthony well lose the World for Love.
In lighter Scenes the comic Muse shall play,
With drolling Falstaffe, and Sir Fopling gay.
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Gomez shall curse his irksome Hours of Life,
Plagu'd with a Soldier, Friar, and a Wife.
Britons once more resume the Taste ye boast,
Nor vex with cold Neglect great Dryden's Ghost.
Take us, O! take us, to your fost'ring Care,
Our Pride shall be to please the brave and fair.
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