And thou, great poet, in whofe nervous lines Accept this friendly praise; and let me prove With tender trifles foothe some artless maid. TO WILLIAM PITT, ESQUIRE, L ON HIS LOSING HIS COMMISSION, In the Year 1736. ONG had thy virtues mark'd thee out for fame, This generous Walpole faw, and griev'd to find PRO. PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S CORIOLANUS. SPOKEN BY MR. QUIN. I a For scenes, whose author is, alas ! no more ; He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd; No sect -- alike it flow'd to all mankind. He lov'd his friends (forgive this gushing tear: Alas! I feel, I am no actor here) He lov'd his friends with such a warmth of heart, So clear of interest, fo devoid of art, Such generous friendship, fuch unshaken zeal, No words can speak it; but our tears may tell. O candid truth, O faith without a stain, O manners gently firm, and nobly plain, O sympathizing love of others' bliss, Where will you find another breast like his ? Such was the man know: Oft has he touch'd your hearts with tender woe : Oft in this crouded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws; For his chalte Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, well you the poet Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, If to thofe friends your kind regard shall give EPIL O GUE LILLO'S TO EL MERICK. OU, who, fupreme o'er every work of wit, You, In judgment here, unaw'd, unbiafs'd, fit, Like Elmerick judge, and let the guilty fall. } But But if fimplicity, with force and fire, Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words infpire; If mafter-strokes the nobler paffions move: INSCRIPTIONS AT HAGLEY, I. On a VIEW from an ALCOVE, VIRIDANTIA TEMPE! TEMPE, QVAE SYLVAE CINGVNT SVPERIMPEN DENTES. II. On a RoCKY FANCY SEAT. - EGO LAVDO RVRIS AMOENI, RIVOS, ET MVSCO CIRVMLITA SAXA NEMVSQVE. III. TO THE MEMORY OF WERE ALL THE NATURAL GRACES, WAS ALL THE AMIABLE SIMPLICITY, WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS OF THE ELEGIAC. H 4 IV. On IV. On the Pedestal of an URN *, ALEXANDRO POPE; POETARVM ANGLICANORVM ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQVE; SACRA ESTO. ANN. DOM. MDCCXLIV. V. On a BENCH. LIEET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE, LABVNTVR ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE; FONTESQUE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT †. INGENIO IMMORTALI IACOBI THOMSON, POETAE SVBLIMIS, VIRI BONI; AEDICVLAM HANC, QVEM VIVVS DILEXIT, GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.' *A Doric portico in another part of the park is ho- A very handfome and well-finished building, in CONTENTS |