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The Poetical Works Of James Grainger

... With Memoirs Of His Life And Writings, By Robert Anderson ... And An Index Of The Linnean Names Of Plants, &c. By William Wright
Granger, James (1723-1776)

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VOL. II.
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LYRIC POEMS.
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SOLITUDE,
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FANCY,
  
HYMN TO CHEERFULNESS.
  
AN ADDRESS TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
TO THE NYMPH OF PITKEATHLY WATERS.
  
TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY.
  
TO NEÆRA.
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LOVE ELEGIES.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID.

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Plum'd Conceit himself surveying,
Folly with her shadow playing,
Purse-proud, elbowing Insolence,
Bloated empiric, puff'd Pretence,
Noise that through a trumpet speaks,
Laughter in loud peals that breaks,
Intrusion with a fopling's face,
(Ignorant of time and place)
Sparks of fire Dissension blowing,
Ductile, court-bred Flattery, bowing,
Restraint's stiff neck, Grimace's leer,
Squint-ey'd Censure's artful sneer,
Ambition's buskins, steep'd in blood,
Fly thy presence, Solitude.
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