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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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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.

II.

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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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I.

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,

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[MISCELLANEOUS PIECES]

THE ANNIVERSARY.

THE REMONSTRANCE. TO THREE YOUNG LADIES, Miss J. P. Trench, Miss Ann Trench, and Miss Nugent,

STANZAS, TO MISS LATOUCHE, THE LATE COUNTESS OF LANESBOROUGH, WITH A VOLUME OF POEMS,

ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY,

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SONNETS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS.

III.

SONNET III. TO GORGES EDMOND HOWARD, ESQ.

IV.

SONNET IV. ON SEEING MISS POPE IN VARIOUS CHARACTERS.

V.

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,

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.

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,

SENTIMENTAL ACQUITTANCE;

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MY OWN EPITAPH.

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SENTIMENTAL ACQUITTANCE;

OR, AN EASY WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS: CONVENIENTLY ADOPTED BY CERTAIN PLAUSIBLE DECLAIMERS, ACCORDING TO A FAVOURITE MORAL MAXIM EXHIBITED IN PRIOR'S EPIGRAM.

I owed to John great obligation;
But John, unhappily, thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.

THE ANSWER.

Mat with my purse bought food and raiment;
But Mat, my claim to quash,
Tenders a scrap of wit in payment;
I wish it had been cash.

ANOTHER, BY R. N. ESQ.

With gratitude no longer glow,
Since friendship's laws I so forget;
Yet sure the equivalent you owe,
Renounce the friend—but pay the debt.