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But if fimplicity, with force and fire,

Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words inspire;

If, like the action which thefe fcenes relate,

The whole appear irregularly great;

If mafter-strokes the nobler paffions move:
Then, like the king, acquit us, and approves a

INSCRIPTIONS AT HAGLEY,

I. On a VIEW from an ALCOVE,

VIRIDANTIA TEMPE!

TEMPE, QUAE 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

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, ESQUIRE;

IN WHOSE VERSES

WERE ALL THE NATURAL GRACES,

AND IN WHOSE MANNERS

WAS ALL THE AMIABLE SIMPLICITY,
OF PASTORAL POETRY,

WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS

OF THE ELEGIAC.

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IV. On

Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame

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Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont, 79
Addition, extempore, by Earl Hardwicke,

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Mount Edgecumbe,

Invitation. To the Dowager Duchefs D'Aiguillon, 86
To Colonel Drumgold,

Epitaph on Captain Grenville,

ibid.

88

On Captain Cornwall, flain off Toulon, 1743, ibid.
Written at Eaton-School,

On Good Humour.

1729,

Some Additional Stanzas to Aftolfo's Voyage to the

Moon, in Ariosto,

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To a Young Lady. With the Tragedy of Venice

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to be fet up in a Wood at Stowe, 1732,
Sulpicia to Cerinthus, in her Sicknefs. From Ti-
bullus. (Sent to a Friend, in a Lady's Name)

Sulpicia to Cerinthus,

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95

ib.

96

ibid.

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Cato's Speech to Labienus, in the Ninth Book of

Lucan,

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