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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

Byrom, John (1692-1763)

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I.

VOL. I.—MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

I.

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II.

DIALOGUES IN THE LANCASHIRE DIALECT.

VERSES CONTRIBUTED TO THE CHESTER COURANT.

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

I.

II.

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.,

THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD, ESQ., ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN HOMER:

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.

DISARMING AN ENEMY.

THE EFFECTS OF MANNER.

THE WICKEDNESS OF REVENGE.

THE SELF-SUBORDINATION OF REASON.

THE QUID AND THE QUIS.

VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH-CASE.

AN ADMONITION AGAINST SWEARING.

TO THE SAME, EXTEMPORE.

ON PRIOR'S SOLOMON.

II.

VOL. II.—SACRED POEMS.

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XIX. OAK-APPLE DAY.

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A Stranger, once, on Restoration-Day
Rode through a Town, and then asked where it lay?
When, having learned that he came through the Place,
He turned his Horse; and, pondering the Case:
“Come through it?” says he; “so I thought I should,
But missed my Road in riding through that Wood.”