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Dorinda

Verses fent to a young Lady with the new edition

of Shakespeare

Verfes on Mrs. Crewe

Rhapsody on Tafte

Elegy written in the Garden of a Friend
Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
Elegy on Captain Cook

Death of Alico

Monody to the Memory of Lady Lyttleton

Fitzpatrick 217

Carlisle 221 Fox-223

Carlife 215

Mafon 227

Gray 231

Serward 237

Edwards 249

Lyttleton 251

Verfes making Part of an Epitaph on the fame
Lady

ditto 251

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Monody on Major Andre
Ode to John Howard, Efq;

Seward 263

Hayley 281

THE

MINSTREL;

O R, THE

PROGRESS OF GENIUS.

THE FIRST BOOK.

I.

H! who can tell how hard it is to climb

The steep where Fame's proud temple fhinesafar! Ah! who can tell how many a foul fublime Has felt the influence of malignant ftar, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war! Check'd by the fcoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown!

II.

And yet, the languor of inglorious days,
Not equally oppreffive is to all.

Him who ne'er liften'd to the voice of praife,
The filence of neglect can ne'er appal.
There are, who, deaf to mad Ambition's call,
Wou'd fhrink to hear th' obftreperous trump of Fame;
Supremely bleft if to their portion fall

Health, competence, and peace. Nor higher aim Had He, whofe fimple tale thefe artless lines proclaim.

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