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Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose

By George Jeffreys

Jeffreys, George,1678-1755

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VERSES TO THE AUTHOR.

Casimire, Book II. Ode 2. Imitated.

[As Camus late his laurel'd Sons survey'd]

[And lives there still of verse that lofty rage]

Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.

VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.

VERSES occasioned by the Solemnity of Mr. Dryden's Funeral.

Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.

On the Death of Parthenia.

An ODE from Sappho, English'd.

A Song.

The Beginning of Lucan, Book 8. English'd.

Part of Lucan, Book IX. English'd.

The Sixteenth of May.

Epigram.

Horace, Book II. Ode 5. English'd.

Horace, Book II. Ode 9. Imitated.

To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato.

Riddle.

Song.

An ODE, on the Death of Charles XII. King of Sweden.

Song.

Another.

ODE.

On the Death of Monimia.

On the Earl of Oxford's Enlargement.

Written in a Lady's Tunbridge Miscellanies.

ODE for New-year's-day, 1720.

On a Gentleman who ran mad with Love of a Physician's Daughter.

Epilogue to Money the Mistress,

Epitaph, On the Rev. Dr. Drelincourt, Dean of Armagh;

Prologue, design'd for the Adelphi, in 1720.

Horace, Epode IV. Imitated.

Prologue, spoken by Mrs. Brett,

Prologue, design'd for Merope.

ODE from the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.

ODE.

To Eliza,

On the Essays on Man.

Epigram.

On the Shell-work in Berkshire.

On a Lady's Hand-writing.

On the Marriage of Sir Edward Turner and Miss Leigh.

On a Lady from India, who loves Bathing.

A Riddle of Dean Swift's, versified.

From the French.

From the same Language,

On the Birth of Sir Edward Turner's Son.

To Urania,

Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire.

From the French Opera of Orpheus.

To a Lady.

To the same.

To a Lady on her Birth-day, March 31.

To Veneroni's Dictionary,

A Riddle.

To a Gentleman,

To the same,

On a Lady's bidding a certain Person look in the Glass.

The Farewel.

A Dialogue between a Marquess and a Saint.

The Drum.

Horace, Ode VI. Book I.

Horace, Ode XIII. Book I.

Horace, Ode IV. Book IV.

Epigram.

Another.

A Fable.

Prologue to Esther, a Tragedy;

The Story of Phaeton.

Father Francis and Sister Constance.

Chess:

The Happy Pair;

Epigram, To the Memory of Peter Alexiowitz,

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ODE.

[Born to retrieve the honour, due]

Born to retrieve the honour, due
To Nature's golden Prime;
The first bright Nymph was bright, like You,
And once as free from crime.

Then, heav'nly-good, as well as fair,
Have pity on your Slave;
The Wretch your Merit bids despair,
Your Mercy yet might save.

Since to adore, we need but see
What Rival Beauties praise;
Ah! censure not unhappy me,
That I have eyes to gaze.

If envious fate withholds the bliss
To those dear arms confin'd,
I can but weep, and wish you His,
Who loves beyond Mankind.

But oh! that fruitless wish shall cease,
Those flowing tears be dry'd,
When kinder death restores the peace
My wretched Life deny'd.

Subdu'd by fond desires, I speak,
Though hopeless e'er to move;
And vent a heart that soon must break
In pangs of slighted Love.