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Poems on Several Occasions

By C. Arnold

Arnold, Cornelius (1711-1757?)

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COMMERCE. A POEM.

THE MIRROR, For the Year M.dcc.lv.

The ROYAL CHACE.

Written in an Alcove near Orpington in Kent.

On the Tragedy of E---a.

The Force of Beauty.

On Miss Esther H---r---s.

An Acrostic on Sir Peter Warren, Admiral, on board the Invincible at Sea.

On the Adam and Eve, badly painted in the Headway of the Invincible.

On the Battle of Fontenoy.

An Answer to the Lines as under, on the Death of Mr. Pope.

On Mr. G---k's Petition in the World to Lord C---d, in a Letter to Lord R---r.

The Important Question.

Colin and Belinda; a Dialogue.

The Beau, in Answer to the Belle.

An ANTIGALLICAN SONG.

On the Freedom of the City of London being presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Esq; and the Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge, Esq

The Fond Nymph, a Song.

The Invocation, a Song.

The Happy Maid, a Song.

On its being reported that Lord O---d repents.

On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.

The Butterfly and Ant, a Fable.

The Swan and Gander, a Fable.

Part of the Twelfth Chapter of the Second Book of Samuel render'd into Verse nearly verbatim.

The Forty-sixth Psalm.

The Third Chapter of Proverbs.

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This Essay was wrote soon after the late Earthquake happened, as alluded to, Page 2. It has gone through several Editions. The Author imputes no Merit to the Performance as a Poem; perhaps its being wrote ad Hominem, is its greatest; few or none being so happy, as to be totally exempt from the Evils of Life; the Design of the Author being to recommend to the Great, Beneficence—and to the Unhappy, the bearing the Ills of Life with Decency.