Printed for T. EVANS, near York-Buildings, in the Strand.

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Ode to Liberty,

Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Colonel

Charles Rofs in the Action at Fontenoy,

Written in May, 1745,

Ode to Evening,

58

67

71

The Paffions. An Ode for Mufic,

An Epiftle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his

Edition of Shakespear's Works,

Dirge in Cymbeline,

81

778

76

88

97

99

105

Obfer-

General Obfervations on the Oriental

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomfon,

Eclogues,

162

Ode to Liberty,

Ode to a Lady, on the Death

of Colonel Charles Rofs in the Action

of Fontenoy. Written in May, 1745, 167

Ode to Evening,

Mufic,

168

The Manners. An Ode, 174

The Paffions. An Ode for

An Epistle to Sir Thomas

Hanmer, on his Edition of Shakespear's

Works,

Dirge in Cymbeline,

178

182

183

of

MEMOIRS

MEMOIRS

OF THE

AUTHOR.

THE

HE enthufiafm 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 task upon the vigilance of reafon; and to bear thofe faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and