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With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition

Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)

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APOLLO and DAPHNE,

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 10.

Claudian's Old Man of Verona.

Translation of Horace, Lib. I. Ode 23.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. IV. Ode 7.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 3.

The Complaint of Damon.

On Mr. Congreve's Plays and Poems.

An EPISTLE.

Ecce Homo. An Ode.

To a young Lady.

To my Brother at St. John's College in Cambridge.

Written in a Book of Novels.

To a Gentleman in Love.

To Mrs. Elizabeth Blackler, playing on the Harpsichord.

On an unknown generous Person.

Written by Lady Jane Grey, when Prisoner in the Tower, with her Pin on her Chamber Wall.

The PORTRAIT.

On a Lady of Quality, saying Spenser wrote broad Scotch.

Buchananus ad Neæram.

PASTORAL.

Mary, Queen of Scots, Farewel to Buxton.

On loving once and loving often.

Against Chance and Fate.

In Memory of the Countess of Winchelsea.

To a Lady lending me Heliodorus just before her Marriage.

Paraphrase on Agur's Wish.

From Boethius.

Paraphrase on the Nicene Creed.

On Mr. Pope's Homer.

Par Nobile Fratrum.

The Triumvirate of Poets.

The Praise of Astronomy, from the first Book of Ovid's Fasti.

On a Death's Head.

From Owen's Epigrams.

On a POEM of the Right Honourable Lady M. W. M. in Mr. Hammond's Miscellany.

From Virgil.

Occasioned by a Passage in Tully de Senectute, relating to the Immortality of the Soul.

The Destruction of BABYLON.

HYPATIA.

Hymn to the Paraclete.

From Job, Chap. XXVI. v. 7.

Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII.

The MICROCOSM, asserting the Dignity of Man.

The three Children in the fiery Furnace.

On Lady Bridgwater's Picture,

CURIOSITY.

On the Thunder-Storm, June 1726.

The Lord's Prayer.

Sacred ODE.

Horace to Leuconoe.

Pars minima est ipsa puella sui.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 15.

The Coquette and Prude.

The Monument.

From Owen's Epigrams.

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton.

To Dr. JAMES SHERARD, M. D.

Winter SONG.

The ROSE.

From Horace, Lib. 1. Ode 38.

SONG.

On Shakespear's Monument.

To Mr. HANDELL.

To Mrs. ROKEBY, Junior, At Arthingworth.

In Memory of Mrs. Eliz. Bridges, Ob. Dec. 1, 1745, Ætat. 88.

April 18, 1747.

[When upright]

MADEIRA.

On the Origin of the World.

On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750.

[Now Night her highest Noon ascends]

[Adieu my Friend! and may thy Woes]

PSALM I.

ODE on Part of the same.

PSALM CXLVIII.

PSALM CL.

HYMN, Taken from Psalm VIII.

HYMN from Psalm CXIX. Ver. 54.

September 20th, 1753.

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PSALM I.

I

Happy the Man who never strays
In vain Consult thro' guilty Ways:
Nor does in Paths of Sinners wait,
Nor rests in their licentious Seat.

II

The Law divine does him employ,
With constant Diligence and Joy:

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This Task prevents the dawning Light,
And fills the Vigils of the Night.

III

So shall he live, so flourish still,
As fast beside the silver Rill,
The Tree, with Fruit maturely hung,
For ever green, for ever young.

IV

But far unlike are the Profane;
As parted from the solid Grain.
Beneath the Van, when Winds arise
The Chaff in whirling Eddies flies.

V

Nor shall the Impious dare to stand
Before the Seat of high Command:
Nor shall they undiscern'd remain,
Tho' herded with the righteous Train.

VI

The Lord observes, with strict Survey,
How pious Men direct their Way:
The Paths in which the Wicked tread
To Certainty of Ruin lead.