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Poems on Several Occasions

With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb ... The Third Edition. To which is added, Poems on the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, the Electoral Prince of Hannover, with other Poems. Never before Printed

Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713)

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A Prefatory Discourse.

[For tho' retiring to the Western Isles]

[Born to surprize the World, and teach the Great]

[For to display our Candour and our Sence]

[Rules they can write, but, like the College Tribe]

THE Portugal-Expedition. February 1703–1704.

On the Birth of the Duke of Britany.

The Passion of Myrrha.

The Power of Beauty.

THE Desperate Lover.

THE FAIR INFIDEL.

To William Jordan of Gatwick, Esq. Horace's 9th Ode, B. 2d. imitated.

To Stephen Harvey, Esq;

An Epithalamium.

On a Lady, of a Voice incomparably sweet, who died Young.

Daphne's Denyal

A DITHYRAMBICK:

LOVE and MUSICK,

On a Gentleman drawing his Own Picture, Sept. 1703.

The REPEATER.

The ASS.

An Ode out of Anacreon.

The 103d Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 130th Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 148th Psalm Paraphras'd.

Descensio Sancti Spiritûs.

On the ceasing of the Oracles upon the Birth of our Blessed Saviour.

To his Friend on the Following Poem.

To his Friend on the following Poem

Of POETRY.

A POEM.

ON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

EUGENIUS.

ON THE Electoral Prince OF HANOVER.

AMPHION.

Out of Horace. Ode 3. B. 13.

OF VAIN WISHES.

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To his Friend on the following Poem

Others their Praise may gratefully bestow,
And pay that Debt, which they to Merit owe;
But I'm indebted on a double score,
Much for your Verse, but for your Friendship more.
And who an Equal Recompence can tell
For one who sings, and one who loves so well
To praise your Verse, is what the most will do;
I would do something more in praising You.
And yet the Task's so great to praise a Friend,
That I much rather would your Verse commend.
I would indeed: but something in your Lines
So Strange, so Dazling, so Peculiar shines;
That loud-tongu'd Praise must here be at a stand,
And silent Wonder only must commend.

W. Dove.