Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, at MDCCLXV. Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Colonel Charles Rofs in the Action at Fontenoy, 150 155 Ode to Simplicity, Ode on the poetical Character, 158 Ode, written in the Year 1746, 161 Ode to Mercy, Ode to Liberty, Ode, to a Lady, on the Death of Colonel Charles Rofs in the Action of Fontenoy. Written in May 1745, ibid. 162 167 168 The Manners. An Ode, 174 The Paffions. An Ode for Mufic, 178 An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, Dirge in Cymbeline, 182 183 MEMOIRS MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR. THE HE enthusiasm of poetry, like that of religion, has frequently a powerful influence on the conduct of life, and either throws it into the retreat of uniform obfcurity, or marks it with irregularities that lead to mifery and difquiet. The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest talk upon the vigilance of reafon; and to bear thofe faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and A of |