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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward
Byrom, John (1692-1763)

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VOL. I.—MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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DIALOGUES IN THE LANCASHIRE DIALECT.
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VERSES CONTRIBUTED TO THE CHESTER COURANT.
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I. TOM THE PORTER.
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II. ON TESTS.
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III. MISS ---'S OBSERVATION UPON THE LATIN MOTTO.
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IV. LOVERS OF LIBERTY.
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V. DE FACTO LOYALTY.
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VI. ON THE NATURALISATION BILL.
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VII. ON THE SAME.
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VIII. ON THE SAME.
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IX. ON THE SAME.
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X. ON THE SAME.
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XI. ADVERTISEMENT UPON THE SAME.
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XII. THE RUMP PARLIAMENT: A HISTORICAL QUESTION.
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XIII. ON THE SAME.
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XIV. THE GHOST OF THE RUMP.
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XV. TO MISO-MANC. AND COMPANY.
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XVI. HOW DIFFERS HISTORY, PRITHEE, FROM HISTORIANS?
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XVII. WHITWORTH'S VICARIOUS SUFFERINGS.
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XVIII. BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
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XIX. OAK-APPLE DAY.
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XX. THE CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO EXECUTED LORDS.
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XXI. A GENUINE DIALOGUE BETWEEN A GENTLEWOMAN AT DERBY AND HER MAID JENNY,
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XXII. VERSES SPOKEN EXTEMPORE BY A SOLDIER THE DAY AFTER HE RECEIVED A FLANNEN WAISTCOAT, THROUGH THE BOUNTY OF THE QUAKERS.
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XXIII. ONE THING WANTING.
  
AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND,
  
SIR LOWBRED O**N,
  
AGAINST AN UNGALLANT MODERN ROUNDHEAD.
  
TO THE EARL OF HARRINGTON: AN APPEAL FOR MERCY.
  
TO LADY B--- W---,
  
THOUGHTS ON RIME AND BLANK VERSE.
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AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND
  
THE ORIGIN OF POETRY.
  
A DEFENCE OF RIME.
  
VERSES ON THE ATTACK UPON ADMIRAL BYNG IN THE “MONITOR.”
  
REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S ESTIMATE.
  
REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED EPISTLES TO THE GREAT, FROM ARISTIPPUS IN RETIREMENT
  
REMARKS UPON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES,
  
ON THE PATRON OF ENGLAND;
  
AN EPISTLE TO J. BL---K---N, ESQ.,
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THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD, ESQ., ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN HOMER:
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CRITICAL REMARKS IN ENGLISH AND LATIN UPON SEVERAL PASSAGES IN HORACE.
  
LINES ON A CONTESTED ELECTION TO A FELLOWSHIP OF THE MANCHESTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH.
  
EPITAPH ON WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM.
  
PLURAL AND SINGULAR.
  
AN ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING LETTER, .
  
TIME PAST, FUTURE, AND PRESENT.
  
LOOK AT HOME!
  
DISARMING AN ENEMY.
  
ANGRY REPROOF.
  
THE EFFECTS OF MANNER.
  
THE WICKEDNESS OF REVENGE.
  
THE SELF-SUBORDINATION OF REASON.
  
THE QUID AND THE QUIS.
  
A QUERY.
  
VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH-CASE.
  
AN ADMONITION AGAINST SWEARING.
  
TO THE SAME, EXTEMPORE.
  
ON PRIOR'S SOLOMON.
  
AN ANECDOTE.
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VOL. II.—SACRED POEMS.

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II. ON TESTS.

This contrast of Dissenter and Nonjuror
Shews, to be sure, which Side is much the surer:
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Strong the Dissenter's, the Nonjuror's weak,
Who vainly for himself attempts to speak.
Says he—“That all Men by an equal Right
Judge for themselves, according to their Light;
That no Man's Conscience should be rul'd by Force,
Which needs not good ones, and makes bad ones worse;
That to impose however true a Creed,
Is what the World calls Popery, indeed;
That all, by Turns, lament the common Grief
Of Penal Laws to punish Men's Belief.”
All these are Arguments (it is confest)
With a Dissenter—that won't bear the Test.
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