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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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A PARAPHRASE, ON CRASHAW'S CELEBRATED EPIGRAM, ON OUR SAVIOUR'S TURNING WATER INTO WINE,

AT THE MARRIAGE IN CANA OF GALILEE. ST. JOHN, CHAP. ii.

WRITTEN AS A SCHOOL EXERCISE, BY A LAD NOT FIFTEEN.

Once to a marriage feast, among the rest,
The Lord of Life went, an invited guest:
Three cheerful suns had set; but now a doubt
Perplex'd the governor—the wine was out.
The holy mother, likewise present there,
With prudent purpose interpos'd her care,
And to her son's celestial aid applied,
Which never fails who in his name confide;
But tho' untimely the request was made,
He, what a lesson! filial reverence paid.

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The menial train, obedience strictly taught,
From the next fountain, as directed, brought
A copious freight, and, as 'twas meet there should,
Arrang'd in view the festal vases stood,
Those, with the limpid stream, the ready band
Fill to the brim by the divine command;
The attentive crowd stood in his presence hush'd,
The conscious water saw her God and blush'd;—
Hence, of the simple element procur'd,
Into their goblets at his bidding pour'd,
Straight to the governor the servants bore;
But, who can heaven's mysterious ways explore?
'Tis wine—and all with admiration mov'd,
The fresh supply beyond the first approv'd.
Thus manifest his glory was made known,
And the great honour due to parents shown.

MARRIAGE IN CANA.

EPIGRAMMA.

Unde rubor vestris et non sua purpura lymphis?
Quæ rosa mirantes tam nova mutat aquas?
Numen, convivæ! præsens agnoscite numen,
Vidit et erubuit Nympha pudica Deum.

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The following lines on our Saviour's turning water into wine were written by Crashaw, a Latin poet of the last century, not by Dryden, to whom they have been attributed.