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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;
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[Scene I.]
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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.
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ELEGY III. ON THE INSTABILITY OF AFFECTION.
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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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MY OWN EPITAPH.

Born premature, such the all-wise decree
Loud shriek'd the storm, and mountains ran the sea;—
Ah! what, sweet Voyager! in that dreadful hour,
Avail'd thy blooming youth; thy beauty's pow'r
She died!—her breast with double anguish torn,
And, her sole care, I first drew breath forlorn.
Her nurse, when female aid was most requir'd,
Faithful to death, kiss'd, bless'd her and expir'd;
The stout ship braved the elemental strife,
And the good crew preserv'd my little life.
Lerpool receiv'd and foster'd me a while,—
Call'd, thrice repuls'd, thence to Hibernia's isle,
With letter'd aid she taught me ills to bear,
And long, not unesteem'd, I sojourn'd there.
Erewhile the state was of my Sire bereft,
And I, hard fate! a helpless orphan left:
Nor, as if mark'd for persecution's spite,
Did one parental smile e'er cheer my sight.
My arms two Sons and one dear Daughter bless'd;
Heaven be their refuge!—here at last I rest.
Faults too I had, and failings not a few;
But yet a heart, I trust, humane and true:
If more the curious reader ask to know,
The final Sentence all in all will show.
JAMQUE OPUS EXEGI.—
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