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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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BOOK I. MORNING.

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BOOK III. AFTERNOON.

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BOOK IV. EVENING.

LABOUR, AND GENIUS:

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

The SCAVENGERS.

To a LADY working a Pair of RUFFLES.

On Mr. Samuel Cooke's POEMS.

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.

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RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED.

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CHORUS. ALLEGRO.

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AIR.

“Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her eye;
“In ev'ry gesture dignity, and love.”