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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]

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Original POEMS, AND TRANSLATIONS.

VERSES upon the Death of the Duke of Gloucester.

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

On the Resurrection.

Ex tempore; on Sight of a Dance.

On Blenheim-House.

On the Death of Parthenia.

An ODE from Sappho, English'd.

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

Part of Lucan, Book IX. English'd.

The Sixteenth of May.

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

Horace, Book II. Ode 9. Imitated.

To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato.

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

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.

To Mrs. Cibber,

The Peach Stone.

Prologue, spoken by Mrs. Brett,

Prologue, design'd for Merope.

ODE from the Latin of Dr. Pitcairn.

On the Essays on Man.

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.

Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire.

From the French Opera of Orpheus.

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

To Veneroni's Dictionary,

To a Gentleman,

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

A Dialogue between a Marquess and a Saint.

Horace, Ode VI. Book I.

Horace, Ode XIII. Book I.

Horace, Ode IV. Book IV.

Prologue to Esther, a Tragedy;

The Story of Phaeton.

Father Francis and Sister Constance.

The Happy Pair;

Epigram, To the Memory of Peter Alexiowitz,

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To Veneroni's Dictionary,

Thrown aside by a Lady, after she had borrowed it of me.

With pity thy reverse of fate I see,
Once happy Book, but now disgrac'd, like me:
Thy lot was lately what a King might prize,
To kiss the Charmer's hands, and fix her eyes.
From wretched me it drew an envious tear;
So distant still was I, and Thou so near.

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Alas! what dire offence this change has wrought!
Or art thou punish'd for thy owner's fault?
A fault the subject of his endless moan,
By Her unpardon'd, and to Him unknown.
Adieu, vain Book; thy store of words is vain,
Tho' two fair Languages thy leaves contain;
Adieu, vain Book; for how can words declare
An Angel's merit, or a Fiend's despair?