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SONNET

To D. WRAY, Efq.

XII.

WRAY, whofe dear friendship in the dawning years

Of undefigning Childhood firft began,

Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran,
My noon conducted, and my evening cheers,

Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears
Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man,
With active Zeal strike out a larger plan,
No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small eftate
Fit for Retirement's unambitious fhade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne:
But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deserts with due diftinction paid,
And praise thy lot, contented with my own.

SONNET

SONNET

XIII.

To the Right Hon. Mr. ONSLow, with the foregoing

T

SONNETS.

HOU, who fucceffive in that honour'd feat

Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'fwage,

To check the boift'rous force of party rage,

Raise modeft worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,

Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age,
In fcarce inferior numbers can relate:

Amid this feaft of Mind, when Fancy's Child,

Sweet SHAKSPEARE, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER, warbling tunes his Doric lays,
Or the firft Man from Paradife exil'd

Great MILTON fings, can aught my ruftic reed
Prefume to found, that may deserve thy praife?

a Arthur Onflow, Efq; Speaker of the House of Commons, after-
Awards Lord Onflow.

To the Same

A Prayer to Venus, in her Temple at Stowe
To the Same. On her pleading Want of Time

To the Same, with a new Watch

An Irregular Ode, written at Wickham in 1746
To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody
Verses, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Lady

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On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of Spenfer.
By Mr. Weft

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The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the Same 113

The Danger of Writing Verfe By W. Whitehead, Efq; 249

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Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching a Tent, &c.

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On a Meffage Card

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The Je ne fçai QuoiTM

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Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College. By Mr. Gray 275

Ode

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat

Monody on the Death of 2. Caroline. By R. Weft, Efq;

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A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega 336

Sonnets

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