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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

By the Rev. William Crowe ... a corrected and much enlarged edition, with notes

Crowe, William (1745-1829)

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INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THE BRITISH THEATRE.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

SONNET TO PETRARCH.

TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN .

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

MIDNIGHT DEVOTION.

FROM PURCHASE'S PILGRIMAGE,

THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.

ON TWO ENGLISH POETS,

ON THE FUNERAL OF ------,

AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,

ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.

INSCRIPTION

ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.

ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.

POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION.

WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.

SUGGESTED BY READING DRYDEN'S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA,

ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.

ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.

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INSCRIPTION

FOR THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS BROUGHT FROM ALEXANDRIA TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

This was the tomb of Alexander,
The Macedonian great Commander,
Who dealt about his killing blows
Alike among his friends and foes:
Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing,
Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing,

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Kept a Castrato for his punk,
And died heroically drunk:
And if at last he went to hell,
I warrant he deserved it well;
Whate'er is said by flatt'ring Mitford,
Who thinks he is gone to heav'n, and fit for't.

Q. Curt. b. x. c. 3. &c.

Athenæus, b. 10. c. 9. p. 434. Αλεξανδρος λαβων (το ποτηριον) εσπασε μεν γενναιως,—εκ τουτου νοσησας απεθανε. Alexander took the cup, and pulled nobly at it.

Mem. It held near a gallon, and he had emptied it once already.