The Poetical Works of the late Christopher Anstey ::

The Poetical Works of the late Christopher Anstey

With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By his son, John Anstey

Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)

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[Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author]

[From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov'd]

[With every plague that can conspire]

TO SIR WILLIAM DRAPER, K.B.

TO THE SAME;

TO COLONEL B. HALE,

TO DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.

[I ne'er (tho' fame applaud me to my wrong)]

[O! pause a while, whoe'er thou art]

THE NEW BATH GUIDE:

[PART I.]

LETTER I. Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.

LETTER II. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at--- Hall, North.

LETTER III. Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.

LETTER IV. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER V. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER VI. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER VII. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Castle, North.

LETTER VIII. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

II.

THE NEW BATH GUIDE. PART II.

LETTER IX. Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.

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SONG. A CHARGE TO THE POETS.

LETTER X. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER XI. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER XII. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER XIII. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

LETTER XIV. Miss Prudence B---n---r---d to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.

LETTER XV. Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North.

EPILOGUE TO THE SECOND EDITION

Criticisms, and the Guide's Conversation with three Ladies of Piety, Learning, and Discretion.

A LETTER

The Conversation continued.—The Ladies' Receipt for a Novel.—The Ghost of Mr. Quin.

ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK.

THE PATRIOT: A PINDARIC EPISTLE, ADDRESSED TO LORD BUCKHORSE.

APPENDIX: CONTAINING THE AUTHOR'S CONVERSATION WITH HIS BOOKSELLER, &c.

THE FIRST ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED. AND ADDRESSED TO JOHN MILLER, ESQ. OF BATHEASTON.

AN ELECTION BALL, IN POETICAL LETTERS

LETTER I. Mr. Inkle to his Wife Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester

LETTER II. Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester

LETTER III. Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester

ENVY, A POEM

WINTER AMUSEMENTS, AN O D E,

EPODE

LIBERALITY, OR THE DECAYED MACARONI

SPECULATION; OR A DEFENCE OF MANKIND.

CHARITY; A POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.

10.

11.

12.

13.

THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER, A POETICAL TALE.

OCCASIONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

INSCRIPTION On a Cenotaph erected by Sir William Draper, K. B. in his Garden at Clifton near Bristol.

EPITAPH On a Lady who died after a lingering Illness, and had earnestly prayed that her only Child might not survive her: The Child died a short time after its Mother.

TO A FRIEND, On the Loss of an amiable Daughter.

On the Occasion of the Duke of Northumberland's being detained at Bath by a return of his Disorder.

LINES Inscribed to the memory of Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by reading Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, Mr. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, &c. &c.

DEO OPT. MAX. VOTUM. C. P. Auctore.

On the Recovery of a young Lady by the use of the Cheltenham Waters.

From Macrobius, Saturn. 11. 7.

In Promptu, to a Lady enquiring the reason why Beards were not worn as in former times.

In Promptu, written in 1779.

A SONNET, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1795,

From Martial.

On the Execution of Mr. Coyghley for High Treason.

Ad Gentem Gallicam Germani apud Anglos commorantis Deprecatio.

BRITAIN'S GENIUS; WRITTEN UPON THE OCCASION OF THE MUTINY AT THE NORE, 1797.

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LINES Inscribed to the memory of Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by reading Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, Mr. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, &c. &c.

O! Johnson, learned, venerable shade,
What havock of thy fame hath friendship made,
What childish trophies round thy manly bust,
What noisome weeds are planted in thy dust!
Yet sleep in peace—and though to me unknown
(Save from the musick of thy learn'd renown)
Accept this verse, if aught my verse can boast
To sooth the anguish of thy injured Ghost.
What though thy friends, thy dearest friends, have tried,
To blaze those faults, which e'en thy foes would hide,
Though like a gem by some rude artist set,
We mark thy flaws, thy brilliancy forget,
Yet rest assured, when all their triumph's o'er,
Thy friends and enemies are known no more,

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When time shall mould the sprightly works of Thrale,
And turn to vinegar her choicest ale,
When Boswell, of his birth and friendships proud,
Mac Lean, Mac Sweyn, Mac Cromheil, and Mac Cloud,
Indignant round the savoury steak shall fry,
Or light Mundungus in the Isle of Sky,
When Pindar too, Soame Jennyngs, and myself,
Shall lie, meet victims, on a grocer's shelf:
Still shalt thou last, and o'er thy hallow'd tomb,
Fair Science weep, and bays perennial bloom.

Peter Pindar. Vide Town Eclogues; Bossy, Piozzi, &c. &c. &c.

Vide Epitaph on Dr. Johnson, written by this celebrated Author.

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LINES Inscribed to the memory of Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by reading Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, Mr. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, &c. &c.