The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson

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Again the glorious temple shall arise,
And with new lustre pierce the neighbouring skics.
The promis’d seat of empire shall again
Cover the mountain, and command the plain ;
And, from thy race distinguish’d, One shall spring,
Greater in act than victor, more than king 860
In dignity and power ; sent down from heaven,
To succour earth. To Him, To Him, 'tis given,
Passion, and care, and anguish, to destroy.
Through Him, soft peace, and plenitude of joy,
Perpetual o'er the world redeemid Mall flow; 865
No more may man inquire, nor angel know.

Now, Solomon ! remembering who thou art,
Act through thy remnant life the decent part.
Go forth : be strong : with patience and with care
Perform, and suffer : to thyself severe,

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Gracious to others, thy desires fuppress’d,
Diffus'd thy virtues ; first of men ! be best.
Thy sum of duty let two words contain ;
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble, and be just. The angel faid. - 875
With upward speed his agile wings he spread ;
Whilst on the holy ground I prostrate lay,
By various doubts impell’d, or to obey,
Or to object : at length (my mournful look
Heaven-ward erect) determin’d thus I spoke: 880

Supreme, all-wise, eternal Potentate !
Sole Author, sole Disposer of our fate!
Enthron’d in light and immortality,
Whom no man fully fees, and none can see!
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Original of Beings! Power divine !
Since that I live, and that I think, is thine !
Benign Creator ! let thy plastic hand
Dispose its own effect ; let thy command
Restore, Great Father! thy instructed son;
And in my act may thy great will be done !

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INGRAVEN ON THREE SIDES OF AN ANTIQUE LAMPY

GIVEN BY ME TO LORD HARLEY.

Antiquam hanc Lampadem

è Museo Colbertino allatam,
Domino Harleo inter Κειμήλια fua

Reponendam D. D. Matthæus Prior.
This Lamp, which Prior to his Harley gave,

Brought from the altar of the Cyprian Dame,
Indulgent Time, through future ages save,
Before the Muse to burn with purer flame !

Sperne dilectum Veneris facellum,
Sanctius, Lampas, tibi munus orno;
I, fove casto vigil Harleianas

Igne Camænas.

CON.

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AN Ode inscribed to the Memory of the Ho

nourable Colonel George Villiers, drowned in the River Piava, in the County of Friuli, 1703 ;

in Imitation of Horace, 1 Odi xxviii. Page 3 Prologue spoken at Court before the Queen on

Her Majesty's Birth-day, 1704 • • 7 A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, occa· fioned by the Victory at Blenheim, 1704 .. On a Passage in the Scaligeriana - - To a Child of Quality, five Years old .. Partial Fame . - - For the Plan of a Fountain, &c. . The Cameleon Merry Andrew A Simile The Flies A Paraphrase from the French From the Greek Epigram

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There

Three Epigrams . . . . Page 26
To a Person who wrote ill, and spake worse

against me - - -
On the same Person - - -
Quid fit futurum cras fuge quærere
The Not-browne Mayde - .
Henry and Emma - - -
An Ode humbly inscribed to the Queen, on the .

glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms, 1706.

Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style ..
Her right Name
Cantata : set by Monsieur Galliard
Lines written in an Ovid ..
A True Maid - -
Another - - - - - -
A Reasonable Amiction -

Another Reasonable Afliction

Forma Bonum fragile - -

An Epigram written to the Duke de Noailles

Epilogue to Smith's Phædra and Hippolytus.

Spoken by Mrs. Oldfield, who acted Ismena 92.

A Critical Moment - - - - - 94

Epilogue to Mrs. Manley's Lucius. Spoken by

Mrs. Horton - - - - . ib.