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Namely, The English Orator; An Address to Thomas Pennant Sonnets; An Epistle to a College Friend; and The Lock Transformed. With notes on The English Orator. By Mr. Polwhele
Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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ADDRESS to THOMAS PENNANT, Esq.
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SONNETS.
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SONNET the FIRST. To Laura. Written 1782.
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SONNET the SECOND. On being prevented, by a sudden Shower, from meeting Laura. Written 1782.
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SONNET the THIRD. To his Wife. Written 1784.
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SONNET the FOURTH. To the same. Written 1784.
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SONNET the FIFTH. Written at Mamhead, beneath an Evergreen Oak—May, 1785.
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SONNET the SIXTH. Written at the Belvidere—Powderham, May, 1785.
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SONNET the SEVENTH.
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SONNET the EIGHTH.
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SONNET the NINTH.
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SONNET the TENTH.
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SONNET the ELEVENTH.
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SONNET the TWELFTH.
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SONNET the THIRTEENTH.
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SONNET the FOURTEENTH.
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SONNET the SEVENTEENTH. To Mr. Pratt, on reading his “Landscapes in Verse.” Written September, 1785.
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SONNET the EIGHTEENTH. To the Reverend Mr. Whitaker, Author of the History of Manchester, On his expressing his Approbation of the “Art of Eloquence.” Written November, 1785.
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SONNET the NINETEENTH. Presented to Major Drewe, with a Translation of the Military Poems of Tyrtæus.—January 26, 1786.
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SONNET the TWENTIETH. To the AUTHOR, on seeing his Plan for a History of Devonshire, 1790.
  
EPISTLE TO A COLLEGE-FRIEND,
  
THE LOCK TRANSFORMED.

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SONNET the SEVENTEENTH. To Mr. Pratt, on reading his “Landscapes in Verse.” Written September, 1785.

Whilst with luxuriant Pride the “Landscape” flows
That speaks the Efforts of an Artist's Hand,—
And (tho' unfinish'd Groupes obscurely stand)
In rich warm Tints the new Creation glows—
At Orient Morn, or Evening's mellow Close
A sweet Elysium, or a fairy Land;—
Whilst thro' the Still-Life Scene Cleone throws
The Heart's enchanting Int'rest, 'mid the Band
Of Innocence and Youth and sighing Love
And rustic Joy;—shall not my ruder Lay
(Calm o'er my Bosom if Complacence move)
To its inspiring Source fond Homage pay?
And, tho' unblest by kindred Genius, prove
That kindred Feeling sheds as kind a Ray?
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