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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.

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,

PRELUDE TO THE SAILOR METAMORPHOSED; OR, THE ANIMATION OF HARLEQUIN;

[Scene I.]

II.

SCENE II.

DUET,

[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.

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,

[Epistles]

EPISTLE I. THE REPLY CONTEMPTUOUS. TO T--- G---, A CLASS-FELLOW,

III.

EPISTLE III. TO JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, ESQ.

IV.

EPISTLE IV. TO A LADY SOLICITING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO HER POEMS,

[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,

SONNETS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS.

III.

SONNET III. TO GORGES EDMOND HOWARD, ESQ.

IV.

SONNET IV. ON SEEING MISS POPE IN VARIOUS CHARACTERS.

SONNET V. ON READING MRS. DOBSON'S LIFE OF PETRARCH, IN THE COTTAGE AT FURNACE,

[PIECES COMPLEMENTARY]

LITCHFIELD. TO MISS SEWARD,

IMPROMPTU,

THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER,

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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SONNET IV. ON SEEING MISS POPE IN VARIOUS CHARACTERS.

WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF A PLAY-BILL,

MDCCLXXXV.

To copy nature is no easy part,
A thousand failures daily prove it true;
The test and pride of imitative art;
The poet's, painter's, and the player's too.

But art consummate vests her offspring ease
With prompt address her beauties to unfold;
She waves her wand, when 'tis her cue to please,
And every thing she touches turns to gold.

Thus, nature's mirrour, Avon's druid shone,
Educ'd each charm and to advantage dress'd;
Thus long has Reynolds, art's creative son,
Perfection felt, and what he felt express'd;
And, tho' an age may but one phœnix hope,
Thus Garrick shines and his fair pupil Pope.