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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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VOL. III.
  
ON A GROTTO near the Thames, at Twickenham, Composed of Marbles, Spars, and Minerals.
  
HYMN on SOLITUDE.
  
An ODE ON ÆOLUS's HARP.
  
On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster.
  
The Choice of HERCULES.
  
An ODE. TO THE People of GREAT BRITAIN.
  
PSYCHE: or the GREAT METAMORPHOSIS.
  
JOVI ELEUTHERIO.
  
AN EPISTLE FROM A Swiss Officer to his Friend at Rome.
  
LIFE burthensome, because we know not how to use it.
  
The Duty of Employing one's Self.
  
On SCRIBLING against GENIUS.
  
The MIMICK.
  
An EPISTLE from FLORENCE.
  
The BEAUTIES.
  
EPILOGUE to Tamerlane. On the Suppression of the Rebellion.
  
The ENTHUSIAST:
  
ODE to FANCY.
  
Stanzas written on taking the Air after a long Illness.
  
The Two Beavers. A Fable.
  
CONTENTMENT.
  
The Education of ACHILLES.
  
An EPISTLE from S. J. Esq; in the Country, to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town.
  
To a LADY in Town, soon after her leaving the Country.
  
To the Right Hon. the Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, presented with a Collection of Poems.
  
CHLOE to STREPHON.
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, on his being installed Knight of the Garter.
  
To a LADY, sent with a Present of Shells and Stones design'd for a Grotto.
  
To a LADY, in answer to a Letter wrote in a very fine Hand.
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The Art of DANCING. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. the Lady Fanny Fielding.
  
THE MODERN FINE GENTLEMAN.
  
THE MODERN FINE LADY.
  
AN ESSAY on VIRTUE. To the Honourable PHILIP YORKE, Esq;
  
The FEMALE DRUM: Or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale.
  
To Mr. FOX, written at Florence. In Imitation of Horace, Ode 4. Book 2.
  
To the Same. From Hampton-Court, 1731.
  
The POET's PRAYER.
  
An EPISTLE to a Lady.
  
GENIUS, VIRTUE, and REPUTATION.
  
MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE.
  
An INSCRIPTION.
  
ODE to WISDOM.
  
To a GENTLEMAN,
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THE ESTIMATE of LIFE, IN THREE PARTS.
  
The PLEASURE of POETRY.
  
The POWER of POETRY.
  
To a Young Lady with Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds.
  
SONG.
  
To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion, by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.
  
VERSES written in a Book called, Fables for the Female Sex.
  
VERSES written in Sylvia's PRIOR.
  
Upon a LADY's Embroidery.
  
DEATH and the DOCTOR.
  
INSCRIPTIONS on a Monument to the Memory of a Lady's favourite Bullfinch.
  
The Trial of SELIM the PERSIAN.
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The TROPHY, BEING SIX CANTATAS To the Honour of his Royal Highness Willliam, Duke of CUMBERLAND;
  
The Marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew.
  
On a BAY-LEAF, pluck'd from Virgil's Tomb near Naples. 1736.
  
To CHLOE. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.
  
A SONG.
  
FASHION: A Satire.
  
NATURE and FORTUNE.
  
The EXCEPTION.
  
To the Earl of CHESTERFIELD.
  
HONOUR. A Poem.
  
ODE to a Water Nymph. By Mr. Mason.
  
MUSÆUS:
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AN ESSAY ON SATIRE,
  
A Character of Mr. POPE's Writings. BEING An Episode from the Poem call'd Sickness, Book II.
  
The Cave of Pope. A Prophecy.
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VOL. V.
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VOL. VI.

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ABSOLUTION.

By the Same.

It blew an hard storm, and in utmost confusion
The sailors all hurried to get absolution;
Which done, and the weight of the sins they'd confess'd,
Was transfer'd, as they thought, from themselves to the priest;
To lighten the ship, and conclude their devotion,
They toss'd the poor parson souse into the ocean.
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