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Poems by the Late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock

Together with an Essay on the Education of the Blind. To Which is Prefixed A New Account of the Life and Writings of the Author
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

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To Mr. THOMAS BLACKLOCK.
  
AN EPISTLE FROM Dr. BEATTIE, TO THE Reverend Mr. THOMAS BLACKLOCK.
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POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
  
HORACE, ODE I. IMITATED.
  
PSALM I.
  
An HYMN to the SUPREME BEING,
  
PSALM CXXXIX.
  
An HYMN to DIVINE LOVE.
  
An HYMN to BENEVOLENCE.
  
An HYMN to FORTITUDE.
  
THE WISH SATISFIED.
  
To HAPPINESS.
  
On EUANTHE's ABSENCE.
  
To a Young Gentleman bound for Guinea.
  
An IRREGULAR ODE.
  
To a COQUETTE.
  
On the Refinements in Metaphysical Philosophy.
  
To Mrs. R--- On the Death of a promising Infant.
  
An ODE.
  
To HEALTH:
  
To a little Girl whom I had offended:
  
To LESBIA.
  
A TRANSLATION of an Old SCOTTISH SONG.
  
SONG
  
The RAVISH'D SHEPHERD.
  
A PASTORAL SONG.
  
On the Death of STELLA;
  
A PASTORAL.
  
The PLAINTIVE SHEPHERD.
  
DESIDERIUM LUTETIAE;
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PHILANTHES:
  
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The WISH: An Elegy.
  
On the Death of Mr. POPE.
  
ELEGY:
  
A SOLILOQUY
  
Miss ------ to the AUTHOR.
  
The Author's Answer.
  
EPISTLE I.
  
EPISTLE II.
  
EPISTLE III.
  
To Miss D. H.
  
To Miss A. H. on her Marriage.
  
To the Reverend Mr. Jameson.
  
An EPITAPH, on his Father.
  
To Mrs. Anne Blacklock, the Author's Mother.
  
PROLOGUE to OTHELLO
  
PROLOGUE to HAMLET
  
To a Gentleman, who asked my Sentiments of him.
  
On PUNCH:
  
On MARRIAGE:
  
On the SAME:
  
An EPITAPH,
  
The Author's PICTURE.
  
ADDRESS TO THE LADIES,
  
HORACE, Ode XIII. Book I.
  
To a LADY, With HAMMOND's ELEGIES;
  
ODE to AMYNTA.
  
An ELEGY.
  
To John M'Laurin, Esq; (now Lord Dreghorn, one of the Senators of the College of Justice).
  
EXTEMPORE VERSES,
  
To the Reverend Mr. Spence, late Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
  
To Dr. BEATTIE.
  
To the Rev. Dr. OGILVIE.
  
To a FRIEND, of whose Health and Success the Author had heard, after a long Absence.
  
The GENEALOGY of NONSENSE.
  
ODE, on Melissa's Birth-day.
  
ODE to AURORA.
  
To Dr. EVANS.
  
To Mr. DALZEL, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh.
  
To Dr. DOWNMAN, in London.
  
To the SAME.
  
To MELISSA.
  
On Dr. BLACKLOCK's Birth-day.
  
From Dr. DOWNMAN to Mrs. BLACKLOCK.
  
From Dr. DOWNMAN to Dr. BLACKLOCK.

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On the SAME:

An EPIGRAM.

Whoever seals the marriage vow,
'Tis well agreed, makes one of two:
But who can tell, save G---d alone,
What numbers may make two of one.
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