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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere
Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

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VOL I.
  
[“The mystery of the Turnspit in the Wheel]
  
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MICROCOSM.
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MISCELLANIES.
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MISCELLANIES.
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FABLES FOR FIVE YEARS OLD.
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FABLE I. Of the Boy and his Top.
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FABLE II. Of the Boy and the Parrot
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FABLE III. Of the Boy and the Wolf.
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FABLE IV. Of the Piece of Glass and the Piece of Ice.
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FABLE V. Of the Cavern and the Hut.
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FABLE VI. Showing how the Cavern followed the Hut's Advice.
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FABLE VII. By Master John's desire, about the Rod and the Whip.
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FABLE VIII. Of the Nine-pins.
  
A FABLE.
  
AN APPEAL TO THE PROFESSORS OF ART AND LITERATURE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
  
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
  
JOURNEY TO HARDINGHAM
  
IMITATION OF HORACE, LIB. I. EP. XI.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
FRAGMENT. II.
  
TO A LADY WITH A PRESENT OF A WALKING STICK.
  
LINES ON ED. NUCELLA, ESQ., ÆT. 75.
  
WRITTEN IN THE FLY-LEAF OF MR. POLLOK'S POEM, “THE COURSE OF TIME.”
  
SPAIN.
  
HEXAMETERS.
  
THE BUBBLE YEAR.
  
EPITAPH ON LORD LAVINGTON.
  
EPITAPH ON LORD NELSON.
  
EPITAPH ON THE REV. WALTER WHITER,
  
EPITAPHS ON MR. CANNING.
  
ANOTHER ON THE SAME, SHOULD THE FORMER BE CONSIDERED TOO LONG.
  
ANOTHER MORE CONCISE.
  
LINES INSCRIBED IN ROYDON CHURCH
  
TABLET IN ROYDON CHURCH.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD EDWARD FRERE.
  
LINES
  
A FRAGMENT.
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My heart exults the lively call obeying,
When the shrill merry pipes are sweetly playing:
With these to chaunt aloud, or to recite,
To carol and carouse, is my delight:
Or in a steadfast tone, bolder and higher,
To temper with a touch the manly lyre.
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