By the side of a glimmering fire, Melinda sat pensively down, Impatient of rural esquire, And vex’d to be absent from Town. The cricket, from under the grate,

With toilsome steps I pass thro’… (No pack-horse half so tired of hi… And when this dirty journey will c… To what new realms is then my way… Say, then does the unbodied spirit…

1736. Donec gratus eram tibi.… SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. Whilst in each of my schemes you m… And help’d the worst jobs that I… In pamphlets, in ballads, in senat…

A Parody on Rowe’s Ballad, “D… By the side of a half-rotten wood Melantha sat silently down, Convinc’d that her scheme was not… And vex’d to be absent from Town.

Let mules and asses in that circle… And proud of trappings toss a feat… Leave you the stupid business of t… Strive to be happy, and despise th… Come where the Graces guide the g…

FLAVIA. The wretched FLAVIA on her couc… Thus breath’d the anguish of a wou… A glass revers’d in her right hand… For now she shun’d the face she so…

How happy you! who varied joys pur… And every hour presents you someth… Plans, schemes, and models, all P… For six long months have gain’d up… Of collonades, of corridors you ta…

Though I never got possession, ’Tis a pleasure to adore; Hope, the wretch’s only blessing, May in time procure me more. Constant courtship may obtain her,…

Read, lovely nymph, and tremble no… I have no more to wish, nor you to… I ask not life, for life to me wer… And death a refuge from severer pa… My only hope in these last lines…

FLAVIA. THE wretched FLAVIA on her cou… Thus breath’d the anguish of a wou… A glass revers’d in her right hand… For now she shun’d the face she so…

SILLIANDER and PATCH. THOU so many favours hast receiv… Wondrous to tell, and hard to be b… Oh! H——D, to my lays attention le… Hear how two lovers boastingly con…

Confess, dear Laelius! pious, jus… Some self-content does in that bos… When you reflect, as sure you some… What talents Heaven does to thy v… While with contempt you view poor…

DANCINDA. “NO, fair DANCINDA, no; you s… ”To calm my care and mitigate my p… “If all my sighs, my cares, can fa… ”Ah! sooth me not with fruitless v…

LYDIA. Now twenty springs had cloth’d the… Since Lydia knew the blossom of f… No lovers now her morning hours mo… And catch her at her toilet half u…

CARDELIA. The bassette-table spread, the tal… Why stays SMILINDA in the dres… Rise, pensive nymph! the tallier s… SMILINDA.