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Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose

By George Jeffreys
Jeffreys, George,1678-1755
 
[epigraph]
 
[dedication]

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VERSES TO THE AUTHOR.
 
Casimire, Book II. Ode 2. Imitated.
 
[As Camus late his laurel'd Sons survey'd]
 
[And lives there still of verse that lofty rage]
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Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.
 
VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.
 
VERSES occasioned by the Solemnity of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.
 
An Epitaph.
 
On the Resurrection.
 
Ramillies,
 
A Fragment.
 
Epigram.
 
Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.
 
Epigram.
 
On Blenheim-House.
 
Song.
 
Another.
 
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.
 
On Jealousy.
 
Song.
 
Epigram.
 
From Ausonius.
 
To Serena.
 
Epigram.
 
Song.
 
From Catullus.
 
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.
 
Song.
 
To Mrs. Cibber,
 
Epigram.
 
To Belinda,
 
Epigram.
 
The Borlace:
 
The Peach Stone.
 
Epigram.
 
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.
 
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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Casimire, Book II. Ode 2. Imitated.

I

Tho' Autumn now to Winter yields,
And hides with Snow the neighb'ring Fields;
Yet when the Sun, with piercing Ray,
Darts on the hills, the Snow will melt away.

II

But soon as Age, around our Brow,
The silver Locks shall thinly sow,
That wintry Mantle will remain,
Nor change its cold unpleasing Dye again.
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III

Swift flies the Summer, Autumn flies;
The blooming Spring, that soon will rise,
With equal speed will pass away;
For all things here are subject to Decay.

IV

Nor can the fragrant Nard renew
On your wan Gheeks the rosy hue;
Nor flow'ry Wreaths, around your head
Tho' daily worn, their glowing tincture spread.

V

What tho' our hungry Sister Worm
Demands this frail and fleeting Form?
For You the grateful Muse will claim
A fair reversion of surviving Fame.

VI

Long has be liv'd, around whose Urn
His Friends with pious Sorrow mourn.
To Memory your Fame convey;
All else the greedy Moons will snatch away.
Wm. Duncombe. November, 1753.
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