CONTENTS.

VOL. VIII.

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Verses written at Bath, on finding the heel of a shoe, in

1748

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Ode on reading Mr. Richardson's History of Sir Charles

Grandison

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In a Letter to C. P. Esq. ill with the Rheumatism

In a Letter to the same. In imitation of Shakespeare.

An Attempt at the Manner of Waller

Song. The sparkling eye

Song. On the green margin of the brook

Upon a venerable Rival

On the Picture of a sleeping Child, from the Latin of Vin-

3

An Apology for not showing her what I had wrote. 1752.

Delia, the unkindest girl on earth

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19

Written in a Quarrel (the delivery of it prevented by a

reconciliation).

Written after leaving her at New Burns

On her endeavouring to conceal her Grief at Parting

Hope, like the short lived ray

All-worshipp'd Gold, thou mighty mystery!

Written in a fit of illness

To Delia. 1755

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Printed in

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Ode. Supposed to be written on the marriage of a friend

The fifth Satire of the first Book of Horace.

Duncombe's Horace, 1759

The ninth Satire of the first Book of Horace. Adapted to

the present times. 1759

Addressed to Miss Macartney, (afterwards Mrs. Greville,)

on reading the Prayer for Indifference. 1762

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OLNEY HYMNS.

1. Walking with God.

2. Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide

3. Jehovah-Rophi. I am the Lord that healeth thee

4. Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord my banner

5. Jehovah Shalom. The Lord send peace

10. The future Peace and Glory of the Church

11. Jehovah our Righteousness

12. Ephraim repenting

39. Looking upwards in a Storm.

40. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

41. Peace after a Storm

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53. For the Poor

54. My Soul thirsteth for God

55. Love constraining to Obedience

56. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernan-

314

dez

On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord

High Chancellorship of England.

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320

On observing some Names of little note recorded in the

Biographia Britannica

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Report of an adjudged Case, not to be found in any of the

Books

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together with

320

The Love of the World Reproved, or Hypocrisy Detected 323

On a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage

The Pine Apple and the Bee

Horace. Book II. Ode x.