But if fimplicity, with force and fire,
Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words inspire;
If, like the action which these scenes relate,
The whole appear irregularly great;
If master-ftrokes the nobler paffions move :
Then, like the king, acquit us, and approve.

INSCRIPTIONS AT HAGLEY,

I. On a VIEW from an ALCOVE,

VIRIDANTIA TEMPE!

TEMPE, QUAE SYLVAE CINGVNT SUPERIMPEN

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.

H 4

IV. On

IV. On the Pedestal of an URN *,

ALEXANDRO POPE;

POETARVM ANGLICANORVM

ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQUE;

VIRORVM CASTIGATORI ACERRIMO,
SAPIENTIAE DOCTORI SVAVISSIMO,
SACRA ESTO.

ANN. DOM. MDCCXLIV.

V. On a BENCH.

LIBET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE,
MODO IN TENACE GRAMINE;

LABVNTVR ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE;

QVAERVNTVR IN SYLVIS AVES:

FONTESQUE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS
SOMNOS QUOD INVITET LEVES.

VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT t.

INGENIO IMMORTALI

IACOBI THOMSON,

POETAÉ SVBLIMIS,

VIRI BONI;

AEDICVLAM HANC, QUEM VIVVS DILEXIT,

POST MORTEM EIVS CONSTRUCTAM,
DICAT DEDICATQUE

GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.

* A Doric portico in another part of the park is ho-
noured with the name of "Pope's Building," and
infcribed, QUIETI ET MVSIS.

+ A very handsome and well-finished building, in

an octagonal line.

CONTENTS

Soliloquy of a Beauty in the country. Written at

Eaton School,

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17

Blenheim. Written at the University of Oxford, in
the Year 1727,

19

To the Reverend Dr. Ayscough, at Oxford. Writ-
ten from Paris in the Year 1728,

25

To Mr. Poyntz, Ambafiador at the Congress of

Soiffons, in 1728. Written at Paris,

-

30

Verses to be written under a Picture of Mr. Poyntz, 33
An Epistle to Mr. Pope. From Rome, 1730.

34

To Lord Hervey, in the Year 1730. From Wor-

Ode, in Imitation of Pastor Fido. Written Abroad

in 1.729,

49

ham, which he had lent to Mrs. Greville. In

To Mr. West, at Wickham. Written in the Year

A Prayer to Venus, in her Temple at Stowe. To

the fame,

57

To the fame. On her pleading Want of Time, 58

An Irregular Ode. Written at Wickham in 1746.

To the fame,

ibid.

To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.

A. D. 1747,

-

-

63

Verfes,

Verses, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame..

Horace. Book IV. Ode IV. Written at Oxford

Page 74

1725,

-

75

Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont, 79

Addition, extempore, by Earl Hardwicke,

80

On Captain Cornwall, slain off Toulon, 1743, ibid.

On Good Humour. Written at Eaton-School,

1729,

89

Some Additional Stanzas to Astolfo's Voyage to the
Moon, in Ariosto,

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१०

To a Young Lady. With the Tragedy of Venice

Preferved,

92

Elegy,

94

Inscription for a Bust of Lady Suffolk; designed

to be set up in a Wood at Stowe, 1732,

Sulpicia to Cerinthus, in her Sickness. From Ti-
bullus. (Sent to a Friend, in a Lady's Name)

ib.

Sulpicia to Cerinthus,

96

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

Lucan,

ibid.

To