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Poems, moral and descriptive

By the late Richard Jago ... (Prepared for the press, and improved by the author, before his death.) To which is added, some account of the life and writings of Mr. Jago
Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

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EDGE-HILL:
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BOOK I. MORNING.
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BOOK II. NOON.
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BOOK III. AFTERNOON.
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BOOK IV. EVENING.
  
LABOUR, AND GENIUS:
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
ARDENNA.
  
The SCAVENGERS.
  
ABSENCE.
  
To a LADY.
  
To a LADY working a Pair of RUFFLES.
  
FEMALE EMPIRE.
  
On Mr. Samuel Cooke's POEMS.
  
The MISTAKE.
  
To a LADY, with a basket of fruit.
  
PEYTOE's GHOST.
  
To a LADY, Furnishing her LIBRARY, at ---, in Warwickshire.
  
To WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq. on receiving a gilt pocket-book. 1751.
  
An ELEGY on MAN.
  
On receiving a little IVORY BOX from a lady, curiously wrought by her own hands.
  
VALENTINE's DAY.
  
HAMLET's SOLILOQUY, IMITATED.
  
ROUNDELAY, WRITTEN FOR THE JUBILEE AT STRATFORD UPON AVON,
  
The BLACKBIRDS.
  
The GOLDFINCHES.
  
The SWALLOWS:
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ADAM:
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
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CHORUS.
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SCENE III.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
EVENING HYMN.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
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RECITATIVE.
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SCENE III.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
MORNING HYMN.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
AIR.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
AIR.
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SCENE III.
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RECITATIVE.
  
RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED.
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SCENE IV.
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RECITATIVE.
  
CHORUS. ALLEGRO.

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To a LADY.

When Nature joins a beauteous face
With shape, and air, and life, and grace,
To ev'ry imperfection blind,
I spy no blemish in the mind.
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When wit flows pure from Stella's tongue,
Or animates the sprightly song,
Our hearts confess the pow'r divine,
Nor lightly prize its mortal shrine.
Good-nature will a conquest gain,
Tho' wit, and beauty sigh in vain.
When gen'rous thoughts the breast inspire,
I wish its rank, and fortunes higher.
When Sidney's charms again unite
To win the soul, and bless the sight,
Fair, and learn'd, and good, and great!
An earthly goddess is compleat.
But when I see a sordid mind
With affluence, and ill-nature join'd,
And pride without a grain of sense,
And without beauty insolence,
The creature with contempt I view,
And sure 'tis like Miss—you know who.
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