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A collection of poems on various subjects

including the theatre, a didactic essay; in the course of which are pointed out, the rocks and shoals to which deluded adventurers are inevitably exposed. Ornamented with cuts and illustrated with notes, original letters and curious incidental anecdotes [by Samuel Whyte]
Whyte, S. (1733-1811)

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THE THEATRE.
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BON TON THEATRICALS.
  
EPILOGUE TO HENRY THE FOURTH.
  
OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE TO HENRY THE FOURTH,
  
PROLOGUE TO COMUS,
  
EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY MRS. GARDINER, AFTER THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH,
  
SONG, SUNG BY ORLANDO, IN AS YOU LIKE IT.
  
OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF JANE SHORE,
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PRELUDE TO THE SAILOR METAMORPHOSED; OR, THE ANIMATION OF HARLEQUIN;
 I. 
[Scene I.]
 II. 
SCENE II.
  
DUET,
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[PIECES FOR THE] THEATRE-ROYAL, CROW-STREET.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF OROONOKO,
  
PROLOGUE, WRITTEN FOR A FIRST-APPEARANCE AT BELFAST, MDCCLXXXVI.
  
MR. WILDER'S FAREWELL EPILOGUE
  
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS. SPOKEN AFTER OTHELLO
  
OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, TO TANCRED AND SIGISMUNDA, FRIDAY, JUNE IIND, MDCCXCI. SPOKEN BY THE YOUNG HEROINE OF THE NIGHT, FOR HER OWN BENEFIT.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF EDWINA, THURSDAY, MARCH XXIX, MDCCXCII. SPOKEN BY MR. MIDDLETON.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF EDWINA,
  
SONG, SUNG BY MR. ------, AS APOLLO, IN THE COMIC OPERA OF MIDAS.
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ELEGIES AND PIECES MISCELLANEOUS.
 III. 
ELEGY III. ON THE INSTABILITY OF AFFECTION.
 IV. 
ELEGY IV. EXPOSTULATION; TO AN UNFAITHFUL MISTRESS.
 VIII. 
ELEGY VIII. THE MOURNERS, A SKETCH FROM LIFE.
  
STANZAS, ON THE RECOVERY OF DR. QUIN,
  
EPITAPH, ON OLD JOHN, MR. NUGENT'S COACHMAN,
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[Epistles]
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EPISTLE I. THE REPLY CONTEMPTUOUS. TO T--- G---, A CLASS-FELLOW,
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EPISTLE III. TO JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, ESQ.
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EPISTLE IV. TO A LADY SOLICITING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO HER POEMS,
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[MISCELLANEOUS PIECES]
  
THE ANNIVERSARY.
  
THE REMONSTRANCE. TO THREE YOUNG LADIES, Miss J. P. Trench, Miss Ann Trench, and Miss Nugent,
  
INVOCATION;
  
BELVIDERE.
  
IMPROMPTU.
  
STANZAS, TO MISS LATOUCHE, THE LATE COUNTESS OF LANESBOROUGH, WITH A VOLUME OF POEMS,
  
ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
THE BALLOON.
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THE EGG,
  
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EPIGRAM.
  
THE NEW-FERRY
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SONNETS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS.
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SONNET III. TO GORGES EDMOND HOWARD, ESQ.
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SONNET IV. ON SEEING MISS POPE IN VARIOUS CHARACTERS.
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SONNET V. ON READING MRS. DOBSON'S LIFE OF PETRARCH, IN THE COTTAGE AT FURNACE,
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[PIECES COMPLEMENTARY]
  
LITCHFIELD. TO MISS SEWARD,
  
IMPROMPTU,
  
THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER,
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TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS.
  
EPIGRAM, ON A CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, BOTH EXTREMELY HANDSOME AND BLIND OF AN EYE: FROM THE LATIN.
  
ANOTHER.
  
A PICTURE OF RELIGION,
  
A PARAPHRASE, ON CRASHAW'S CELEBRATED EPIGRAM, ON OUR SAVIOUR'S TURNING WATER INTO WINE,
  
A PARAPHRASE ON THE REV. DR. WATTS'S CELEBRATED DISTICH, ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES.
  
JUVENAL'S STATE OF THE LEARNED, SATIRE VII.
  
THE APPLE, AN IMITATION, FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO,
  
EPIGRAM.
  
SENTIMENTAL ACQUITTANCE;
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THE MERCHANT;
  
EPIGRAM.
  
DEFENCE.
  
MY OWN EPITAPH.

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STANZAS, ON THE RECOVERY OF DR. QUIN,

FROM A LATE DANGEROUS INDISPOSITION, IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXII.

As, late, at Quin's devoted head
The ruthless tyrant aim'd his dart,
Around a general horror spread,
And anguish seiz'd on every heart:
When, bursting from a golden cloud,
Awake, alive to human woe,
A seraph voice was heard aloud—
‘Yet, monster! yet, suspend the blow—
‘Disease and pain demand his aid;
‘From him the orphan claims his sire;
‘Unnumber'd vows for him are paid;
‘With him unnumber'd hopes expire.
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‘Though rare, alas! on earth to find
‘A heart so fitted for the skies,
‘Yet, heaven in pity to mankind,
‘His perfect bliss awhile denies.—
‘The fears of friendship to remove;
‘To wipe the tear from pity's eye;
‘To banish from the breast of love
‘The dread suspense, the anxious sigh;
‘To spare the child to helpless age,
‘Just trembling on the verge of life;
‘To shield from fate's severest rage
‘The bleeding bosom of the wife;
‘For this he lives—yet heaven pursues
‘To nobler ends it's vast designs;
‘Nor to weak man's contracted views
‘Supreme benevolence confines:
‘On higher aims intent—to spare
‘Whom vice hath led from truth astray,
‘'Till holy penitence and prayer
‘To mercy's throne shall ope the way;
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‘To mark to man, the slave of sense,
‘Bewilder'd in the vale of strife,
‘('Till heaven shall, late, require him hence)
‘The bright example of his life—’
The angel ended—from on high
Responsive warblings breath along;
The Pœan swells through earth and sky,
And nature joins the choral song.
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