Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006)

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A COLLECTION of POEMS.

VOL. VI.

A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN SIX VOLUMES.

A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN SIX VOLUMES.

BY SEVERAL HANDS.

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LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS, For R. and J. DODSLEY, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall. M DCC LXIII.

HYMN TO THE NAIADS. / Mark Akenside
ODE To the Right Honourable FRANCIS Earl of HUNTINGDON. MDCCXLVII. / Mark Akenside
ODE To the Right Reverend BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER. / Mark Akenside
INSCRIPTIONS.

INSCRIPTIONS.

By the Same.

[Inscription] V.

GULIELMUS III. FORTIS, PIUS, LIBERATOR, CUM INEUNTE AETATE PATRIAE LABENTI ADFUISSET SALUS IPSE UNICA; CUM MOX ITIDEM REIPUBLICAE BRITANNICAE VINDEX RENUNCIATUS ESSET ATQUE STATOR; TUM DENIQUE AD ID SE NATUM RECOGNOVIT ET REGEM FACTUM, UT CURARET NE DOMINO IMPOTENTI CEDERENT PAX, FIDES, FORTUNA, GENERIS HUMANI. AUCTORI PUBLICAE FELICITATIS P. G. A. M. A.

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[Inscription] I. For a GROTTO. / Mark Akenside
[Inscription] II. For a Statue of CHAUCER at WOODSTOCK. / Mark Akenside
[Inscription] III. / Mark Akenside
[Inscription] IV. / Mark Akenside
[Inscription] V.

[Inscription] V.

[Inscription] VI. For a Column at RUNNYMEDE. / Mark Akenside
ODE. / Mark Akenside
ODE TO THE TIBER. WRITTEN ABROAD. / William Whitehead
ELEGIES.

ELEGIES.

By the Same.

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ELEGY I. Written at the CONVENT of HAUT VILLERS in CHAMPAGNE, 1754. / William Whitehead
ELEGY II. On the MAUSOLEUM of AUGUSTUS. To the Right Honourable George Bussy Villiers, Viscount Villiers. Written at ROME, 1756. / William Whitehead
ELEGY III. To the Right Honourable George Simon Harcourt, Visc. Newnham. Written at ROME, 1756. / William Whitehead
ELEGY IV. To an OFFICER. Written at Rome, 1756. / William Whitehead
ELEGY V. To a FRIEND Sick. Written at Rome, 1756. / William Whitehead
ELEGY VI. To another FRIEND. Written at Rome, 1756. / William Whitehead
The LYRIC MUSE to Mr. MASON. On the Recovery of the Right Honourable the Earl of HOLDERNESSE from a dangerous Illness. / William Whitehead
On the IMMORTALITY of the SOUL. / Soame Jenyns
The ARBOUR: An ODE to CONTENTMENT. / Thomas Cole
The GROTTO: An ODE to SILENCE. / Thomas Cole
The PICTURE of HUMAN LIFE. Translated from the GREEK of CEBES the THEBAN. / Thomas Scott
The DROPSICAL MAN. / William Taylor
PARADISE REGAIN'D. / Henry Taylor
To the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT WALPOLE. / George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe
To a LADY on a LANDSCAPE of her Drawing. / Charles Parrott
ODE to CUPID on VALENTINE'S Day. / Charles Parrott
To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. / Sneyd Davies
To the Reverend T— T—, D. D. / Sneyd Davies
VACATION. / William Hall
To a LADY very handsome, but too fond of DRESS. / William Hall
ANACREON. ODE III. / William Hall
An Imitation of HORACE, Ode II. Book III. Angustam amice, &c. / Walter Titley
A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II. Book III. of HORACE. Angustam amice pauperiem pati, &c. / Richard Bentley
Inscription on a GROTTO of Shells at CRUX-EASTON, the Work of Nine young Ladies. / Alexander Pope
VERSES occasioned by seeing a GROTTO built by Nine Sisters. / Nicholas Herbert
An EXCUSE for INCONSTANCY, 1737. / Thomas Lisle
To VENUS. A RANT, 1732. / Thomas Lisle
The POWER of MUSIC. A SONG. / Thomas Lisle
LETTER from SMYRNA to his Sisters at CRUX-EASTON, 1733. / Thomas Lisle
Part of a LETTER to my Sisters at CRUX-EASTON, wrote from CAIRO in EGYPT, AUGUST 1734. / Thomas Lisle
LETTER from MARSEILLES to my Sisters at CRUX-EASTON, MAY 1735. / Thomas Lisle
The HISTORY of PORSENNA, King of RUSSIA IN TWO BOOKS. / Thomas Lisle
The EVER-GREEN. / William Shenstone
ANSWER. / William Shenstone
CANDOUR. / William Shenstone
LYSANDER to CLOE. / William Shenstone
CLOE to LYSANDER. / William Shenstone
To the Memory of an agreeable LADY bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her. / William Shenstone
An ELEGY, written on VALENTINE Morning. / Anonymous
The DOWAGER. / Anonymous
ODE to the Honourable **** / Francis Coventry
To Miss ****. / Elizabeth Carter
Lady MARY W***, to Sir W*** Y*** / Frances Thynne Seymour, Countess of Hertford, Duchess of Somerset
Sir W***** Y*****'s Answer. / Sir William Yonge
Miss SOPER'S Answer to a Lady, who invited her to retire into a monastic Life at St. CROSS, near WINCHESTER. / Miss Soper
REPENTANCE. / Miss Soper
A SONG. / Thomas Percy
CYNTHIA, an Elegiac POEM. / Thomas Percy
DIALOGUE to CHLORINDA. / Anthony Alsop
To CHLORINDA. / Anthony Alsop
The Fable of IXION. To CHLORINDA. / Anthony Alsop
A TALE. To CHLORINDA. / Anthony Alsop
ODE on Lyric POETRY. / Sir James Marriott
ARION, an ODE. / Sir James Marriott
HORACE, Book II. Ode II. Quid bellicosus Cantaber, &c. / William Pulteney, Earl of Bath
A PANEGYRIC on ALE. / Thomas Warton
ODE to the Genius of ITALY, occasioned by the Earl of CORKE'S going Abroad. / John Duncombe
To C*** P****, Esq; / Sneyd Davies
Epistle from the late Lord Viscount B—GB—KE to Miss LUCY A—K—NS. / Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The CHEAT's APOLOGY. / John Ellis
SONG. / John Ellis
Another. / John Ellis
To Mr. GRENVILLE on his intended Resignation. / Richard Berenger
To Mr. GARRICK, on his erecting a Temple and Statue to SHAKESPEAR. / Richard Berenger
On the Birth-Day of SHAKESPEAR. A CENTO. Taken from his Works. / Richard Berenger
An ODE to SCULPTURE. / James Scott
True RESIGNATION. / John Scott Hylton
An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE.

An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE.1757.

CROYEZ que si j' etois, Voltaire,
Particulier aujourdhui,
Me contentant du necessaire,
Je verrois envoler la Fortune legere,
Et m' en mocquerois comme lui.
Je connois l' ennui des grandeurs,
Le fardeau des devoirs, le jargon des flateurs,
Et tout l' amas des petitesses,
Et leurs genres et leurs especes,
Dont il faut s' occuper dans le sein des honneurs.
Je meprise la vaine gloire,
Quoique Poëte et Souverain,
Quand du ciseau fatal retranchant mon destin
Atropos m' aura vu plongé dans la nuit noire,
Que m' importe l' honneur incertain
De vivre apres ma mort au temple de Memoire:
Un instant de bonheur vaut mille ans dans l' histoire.
Nos destins sont ils donc si beaux?
Le doux Plaisir et la Mollesse,
La vive et naïve Allegresse
Ont toujours fui des grands, la pompe, et les faisceaux,
Nes pour la liberté leurs troupes enchantresses
Preferent l' aimable paresse
Aux austeres devoirs guides de nos travaux.
[Page 282]Aussi la Fortune volage
N' a jamais causé mes ennuis,
Soit qu' elle m' agaçe, ou qu' elle m' outrage,
Je dormirai toutes les nuits
En lui refusant mon hommage.
Mais notre etat nous fait loi,
Il nous oblige, il nous engage
A mesurer notre courage,
Sur ce qu' exige notre emploi.
Voltaire dans sons hermitage,
Dans un païs dont l' heritage
Est son antique bonne foi,
Peut s' addonner an paix a la vertu du sage
Dont Platon nous marque la loi.
Pour moi menacé du naufrage,
Je dois, en affrontant l' orage,
Penser, vivre, et mourir en Roi.

[An EPISTLE from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur VOLTAIRE.] / Frederick II, King of Prussia; John Gilbert Cooper (translator)
At seeing Archbishop WILLIAMS'S Monument in CARNARVONSHIRE. / Sneyd Davies
Extempore Verses upon a Trial of Skill between the two great Masters of Defence, Messieurs FIGG and SUTTON. / John Byrom
A Letter from Cambridge to a young Gentleman at Eton School. / Edward Littleton
The INDOLENT. / John Hoadly
The SONG of SIMEON paraphrased. / James Merrick
On the Invention of LETTERS. / Joseph Stennett
The ANSWER. / Mary Monck (née Molesworth)
On WIT. / John Winstanley
On a SPIDER. / Edward Littleton
The PLAY-THING chang'd. / Anonymous
The FABLE of JOTHAM: To the BOROUGH-HUNTERS. / Richard Owen Cambridge
An Elegy written in an empty Assembly-Room. / Richard Owen Cambridge
The FAKEER: A TALE. / Richard Owen Cambridge
To Mr. WHITEHEAD, On his being made POET LAUREAT. / Richard Owen Cambridge
Verses on the Prospect of planting ARTS and LEARNING in AMERICA. / George Berkeley
To Mr. MASON. / William Whitehead
ODE. To INDEPENDENCY. / William Mason
ODE. On MELANCHOLY. / William Mason
ODE. / Thomas Gray
ODE. / Thomas Gray
POSTSCRIPT.

POSTSCRIPT.

HAVING now, by the advice and assistance of my friends, brought this Collection of POEMS to a competent size, it has been thought proper that the farther progress of its growth should here be stop'd. From the loose and fugitive pieces, some printed, others in manuscript, which for forty or fifty years past have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the most judicious opinions I could obtain in distinguishing their merits, endeavour'd to select and preserve the best. The favourable reception which the former volumes have met with, demands my warmest acknowledgments, and calls for all my care in compleating the Collection; and in this respect, if it appear that I have not been altogether negligent, I shall hope to be allow'd the merit, which is all I claim, of having furnish'd to the Public an elegant and polite Amusement. Little more need be added, than to return my thanks to several ingenious friends, who have obligingly contributed to this Entertainment. If the reader should happen to find, what I hope he seldom will, any pieces which he may think unworthy of having been inserted; as it would ill become me to attribute his dislike of them to his own want of Taste, so I am too conscious of my own deficiencies not to allow him to impute the insertion of them to mine.

R. DODSLEY.

INDEX to the Sixth Volume.

INDEX to the Sixth Volume.

HYmn to the Naiads, 1746 Page 1
Ode to the Right Hon. Francis E. of Huntingdon, 1747 Page 15
Ode to the Right Rev. Benjamin Lord Bishop of Winchester Page 25
Inscriptions,
- 1. For a Grotto Page 29
- 2. For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock Page 30
- 3. Page 31
- 4. Page 32
- 5. Page 33
- 6. For a Column at Runnymede Page 34
Ode Page 35
Ode to the Tiber Page 37
Elegies,
- 1. Written at the Convent of Haut Villiers in Champagne, 1754 Page 41
- 2. On the Mausoleum of Augustus. To the Right Hon. George Bussy Villers, Viscount Villers, written at Rome, 1756 Page 44
- 3. To the Right Hon. George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Newnham, written at Rome, 1756 Page 47
- 4. To an Officer, written at Rome, 1756 Page 50
- 5. To a Friend Sick, written at Rome, 1756 Page 54
- 6. To another Friend, written at Rome, 1756 Page 56
The Lyric Muse to Mr. Mason Page 58
On the Immortality of the Soul, in two Books 60, Page 76
The Arbour: an Ode to Contentment Page 91
The Grotto: an Ode to Silence Page 97
The Picture of Human Life Page 100
The Dropsical Man Page 125
Paradise regain'd Page 126
To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole Page 129
To a Lady on a Landscape of her Drawing Page 135
Ode to Cupid on Valentine's Day Page 137
To the Hon. and Rev. F. C. Page 138
To the Rev. T*** T**, D. D. Page 142
Vacation Page 148
To a Lady very handsome, but too fond of Dress Page 155
Anacreon. Ode III. Page 157
An Imitation of Horace, Ode II. Book III. Page 158
A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II. Book III. of Horace Page 160
[Page 335]Inscription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Easton, the Work of Nine young Ladies Page 161
Verses occasioned by seeing a Grotto built by Nine Sisters Page 162
An Excuse for Inconstancy, 1737 ibid.
To Venus. A Rant, 1732 Page 164
The Power of Music. A Song. Imitated from the Spanish Page 166
Letter from Smyrna to his Sisters at Crux-Easton, 1733 Page 167
Part of a Letter to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, wrote from Cairo in Egypt, August 1734 Page 172
Letter from Marseilles to my Sisters at Crux-Eaton, May, 1735 Page 174
The History of Porsenna, King of Russia, in two Books Page 178
The Ever-Green Page 211
Answer Page 212
Candour ibid.
Lysander to Cloe Page 213
Cloe to Lysander Page 215
To the Memory of an agreeable Lady buried in Marriage to a Person undeserving her Page 216
An Elegy, written on Valentine Morning Page 217
The Dowager Page 221
Ode to the Hon. *** Page 225
To Miss *** Page 227
Lady Mary W***, to Sir W*** Y*** Page 230
Sir W** Y**'s Answer ib.
Miss Soper's Answer to a Lady, who invited her to retire into a monastic Life at St. Cross, near Winchester Page 231
Repentance Page 232
A Song Page 233
Cynthia, an Elegiac Poem Page 234
Dialogue to Chlorinda Page 239
To Chlorinda Page 241
The Fable of Ixion. To Chlorinda Page 242
A Tale. To Chlorinda Page 246
Ode on Lyric Poetry Page 250
Arion, an Ode Page 253
Horace, Book II. Ode II. Page 255
A Panegyric on Ale. Page 258
Ode to the Genius of Italy, occasioned by the Earl of Corke's going Abroad Page 263
To C*** P***, Esq Page 265
Epistle from the late Lord Visc. B—gb—ke to Miss Lucy A—k—ns Page 267
The Cheat's Apology Page 268
Song Page 270
Another Page 271
To Mr. Grenville on his intended Resignation ibid.
To Mr. Garrick, on his erecting a Temple and Statue to Shakespear Page 273
On the Birth-Day of Shakespear. A Cento. Taken from his Works Page 275
[Page 336]An Ode to Sculpture Page 276
True Resignation Page 280
Epistle from the King of Prussia to Mr. Voltaire Page 281
At seeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvonshire Page 284
Extempore Verses upon a Trial of Skill between the two great Masters of Defence, Messieurs Figg and Sutton Page 286
A Letter from Cambridge to a Young Gentleman at Eton School Page 290
The Indolent Page 294
The Song of Simeon paraphrased Page 295
On the Invention of Letters Page 296
The Answer Page 297
On Wit ibid.
On a Spider Page 298
The Play-Thing chang'd Page 299
The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters Page 300
An Elegy written in an empty Assembly-Room Page 302
The Fakeer: A Tale Page 306
To Mr. Whitehead, on his being made Poet Laureat Page 309
Verses on the Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America Page 311
To Mr. Mason Page 312
Ode. To Independency Page 315
Ode. On Melancholy. To a Friend Page 318
Ode Page 321
Ode Page 326
Postscript Page 333

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