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Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, at
Tully's Head, near Surry Street in the Strand.

MDCCLXV.

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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,
Ode to Evening,

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

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