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The poetical works of George Keate

Keate, George (1729-1797)

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I.

THE FAMILY MEETING;

ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME;

ON THE DEATH OF A LINNET.

A PASTORAL ODE TO ECHO.

ABSENCE; A PASTORAL ELEGY.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

ON THE MARRIAGE OF TWO FRIENDS.

TO A LADY; FROM HER DEAD BULLFINCH.

THE HELVETIAD: A FRAGMENT.

THE TABULA VOTIVA,

AN ODE TO FRIENDSHIP;

VERSES, OCCASIONED BY VISITING IN 1756, A small CHAPEL on the Lake of Lucern, in the Canton of Uri,

EPILOGUE, Spoken at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, 1758, by Miss Pritchard,

A PASTORAL BALLAD.

EPILOGUE TO THE WONDER.

THE TEMPLE-STUDENT:

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AN EPISTLE FROM LADY JANE GRAY, TO LORD GUILFORD DUDLEY,

TO A Young LADY,

TO A FRIEND, On New-Year's Day, 1766.

PROLOGUE, On opening of the new Theatre, at Southampton, 1766.

A CARD TO DAVID GARRICK, Esq.

ON Seeing Mrs. Garrick in a Country Dance.

TO BIDDY AT BATH.

EPILOGUE TO THE Dramatic Romance of CYMON.

A LITTLE ODE, TO A LITTLE MAID,

A POEM TO THE MEMORY OF THE CELEBRATED Mrs. CIBBER.

THE FAN. TO ARDELIA.

A FAREWELL EPILOGUE;

THE SWORD-KNOT:

THE POWER OF FANCY.

FERNEY : AN EPISTLE TO MONSR DE VOLTAIRE.

PROLOGUE TO THE Play of KING JOHN, Acted at Mr. Newcomb's at Hackney, 1769.

EPILOGUE TO THE Play of KING JOHN, Acted at Mr. Newcomb's at Hackney, 1769.

EPILOGUE TO THE Play of MACBETH.

AN ADDRESS FROM THE THAMES.

THE CONTENTED MAID.

TO Mrs. BLAKE, With a Pair of Hand-Screens.

CUPID's REMONSTRANCE, AN EPILOGUE,

A BURLESQUE ODE,

PROLOGUE, TO THE Play of JULIUS CÆSAR, Acted at Mr. Newcomb's at Hackney, 1774.

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THE MONUMENT IN ARCADIA:

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TO The Messrs. ADAM,

EPILOGUE FOR THE First Part of HENRY IV.

A PETITION FROM Mrs. DELANY's Citron-Tree ,

To the Memory of Dr. JOHN HOADLY, Chancellor of Winchester.

A NUPTIAL ODE, ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,

ADVICE TO A LITTLE GIRL,

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TO Mrs. BLAKE, With a Pair of Hand-Screens.

These Hand-Screens, Dear Cousin, I send, and desire
They may hang by your Chair, and insure you from Fire,
They will shield you from Flames that might otherwise hurt,
And drive back each Spark that's too forward and pert:

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Most attentively zealous in all you command,
They'll your Wishes obey, if you move but your Hand.—
I have giv'n them in Charge, that they still persevere
To guard those good Features I so much revere,
Where Beauty once reign'd, and strong character'd tells
The still fairer Mind that behind them still dwells;
Where the Look of Good Sense, and the Smile of Content
Mark the Triumph of Life that in Virtue is spent!—
And what Triumph is yours!—who round you behold
Five Sisters, whose Value no Muse can unfold!
Who bound by those Wreaths which Affection hath wove,
All their Days and their Years spend in Friendship and Love.—

'Tis a Picture so charming, so sweet to the Sight,
That the oftner I see it, it gives fresh Delight;

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Its Lines are so just, and its Colours so true,
It was painted by Virtue one sees at first View;
'Tis a Hand I most rev'rence—So, let us agree
That my Screens ne'er shall cover this Picture from me.

The Eldest of Six Sisters living together in Great Russell-Street, well known, and universally esteemed, for that Family Affection and general Benevolence, by which their Lives have been governed and characterized.