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Poems and Plays

by Mr. Jerningham. In Four Volumes ... The Ninth Edition
(1737?-1812)

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VOL. I
  
[dedication]
  
THE MAGDALENS;
  
YARICO TO INKLE.
  
The NUN;
  
THE NUNNERY.
  
THE DESERTER.
  
IL LATTE.
  
MATILDA.
  
THE SWEDISH CURATE,
  
THE FUNERAL OF ARABERT, MONK OF LA TRAPPE,
  
WRITTEN IN Mr. HUME's History.
  
IMITATED From the FRENCH.
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FOR THE VASE AT BATH EASTON UPON DREAMS.
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FOR THE VASE AT BATH EASTON. DISSIPATION.
  
THE INDIAN CHIEF.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A REED-HOUSE
  
THE VENETIAN MARRIAGE.
  
THE MEXICAN FRIENDS.
  
GUATIMOZINO's SPEECH, AT THE PLACE OF INTERMENT.
  
THE SPEECH OF THE HIGH-PRIEST, AT THE PILE.
  
THE ANCIENT ENGLISH WAKE;
  
INSCRIPTION INTENDED FOR AN OLD THATCHED CHURCH.
  
ON THE DEATH of Two Favourite Birds.
  
SENSIBILITY.
  
THE SOLDIER's FAREWELL, ON THE EVE OF A BATTLE.
  
ALBINA.
  
TO THE LATE Earl of CHESTERFIELD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF Mr. GARRICK, 1779.
  
ON THE AUTHOR OF THE BALLAD CALLED THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.
  
TO LADY CATHARINE MURRAY,
  
TO A LADY, WHO LAMENTED SHE COULD NOT SING.
  
A SONNET to the Book
  
FEBRUARY 4th, 1785.
  
HONORIA:
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VOL. II
  
THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.
  
[[ON THE RESIGNATION OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.]]
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EPITAPHS.
  
ON Miss JERNINGHAM.
  
ON JAMES ROBSON,
  
ON Miss HAMILTON.
  
LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF Sir JOHN ELLIOT, M. D.
  
[They whom in life the bond of Friendship bound]
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NORTHERN POETRY:
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PART I.
  
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PART II.
  
ABELARD TO ELOISA:
  
THE AFRICAN BOY.
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ENTHUSIASM:
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PART I.
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PART II.
  
AN APOLOGUE.
  
THE ROOKERY.
  
TINTERN ABBEY .
  
TO THE BARON NOLOKEN, THE SWEDISH AMBASSADOR,
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY HERVEY.
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TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LADY JERNINGHAM.
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VOL. IV
  
PEACE, IGNOMINY, AND DESTRUCTION:
  
EPILOGUE TO THE TATLERS,
  
On seeing some beautiful Lines WRITTEN BY THE Marchioness of Stafford,
  
LINES ON LORD CASTLE-ROSS
  
TO Mrs. M***,
  
LINES Addressed to the Horse of the Right Honourable Lady Cawdor.
  
TO THE COUNT DE VERLAC,
  
ON THE PORTRAIT of Mrs. JERNINGHAM, BY HOPNER.
  
WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE.
  
To MISS B****Y, On her Return from Italy.
  
LINES Addressed to the Muse.
  
THE ANSWER.
  
LINES ON “THE BAVIAD:”
  
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. DUFF.
  
ON THE DEATH OF Mr. PITT.

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184

TO THE LATE Earl of CHESTERFIELD.

Reclin'd beneath thy shade, Blackheath!
From politics and strife apart;
His temples twin'd with laurel-wreath,
And Virtue smiling at his heart:
Will Chesterfield the Muse allow
To break upon his still retreat;
To view if health still smooths his brow,
And prints his grove with willing feet?
'Twas this awak'd the present theme,
And bade it reach thy distant ear;
Where, if no rays of Genius beam,
Sincerity at least is there.
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May pale Disease fly far aloof,
O'er venal domes its flag display;
And Health beneath thy peaceful roof
Add lustre to thy evening ray!
If this my fervent wish be crown'd,
I'll dress with flow'rs the godhead's shrine:—
Nor thou, with Wisdom's chaplet bound,
At any absent gift repine.
What tho' thou dost not grace a throne,
While subjects bend the supple knee;
No other king the Muses own,
And Science lifts her eye to thee.
Tho' Deafness, by a doom severe,
Steals from thy ear the murm'ring rill,
Or Philomel's delightful air;
E'en deem not this a partial ill.
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Ah! if anew thine ear was strung,
Awake to ev'ry voice around;
Thy praises, by the many sung,
Would stun thee with the choral sound.
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