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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]

THE NEW BATH GUIDE:

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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,

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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In Promptu, written in 1779.

You say, my Friend, that every day
Your company forsaking,
In quest of news I haste away,
The Morning Post to take in:

But if nor news nor sense it boast,
Which all the world agree in,
I don't take in the Morning Post,
The Morning Post takes me in.