CONTENTS

PITT'S

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POEMS.

PREFACE

To Mr. Chriftopher Pitt, on his Poems and

Tranflations,

Dr. Cobden to Mr. Pitt, on his having a Bay Leaf

fent him from Virgil's Tomb,

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An Epistle to Dr. Edward Young, at Eaftbury,
in Dorsetshire, on the Review at Sarum, 1722.

On the approaching Delivery of her Royal High-

nefs, in the Year 1721. An Ode.

On the Marriage of the Prince of Orange, and

the Princess Royal of England,

On the Marriage of Frederic Prince of Wales,

and Princess Augufta of Saxe-Gotha,

The First Hymn of Callimachus to Jupiter,

The Second Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo,

To Sir James Thornhill, on his excellent Painting,

the Rape of Helen, at the Seat of General Erle

in Dorsetshire. Written in the Year 1718,

Part of the Second Book of Statius,

On the Death of a Young Gentleman,

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Chrift's Paffion, from a Greek Ode of Mr. Maf-
ter's, formerly of New College. An Ode,
On the King's Return, in the Year 1720,
On the Mafquerades,

On a Shadow. An Ode,

To Cælia playing on a Lute. An Ode,

To the Unknown Author of the Battle of the

Sexes,

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On the approaching Congrefs of Cambray. Writ-
ten in the Year 1721,

The Fable of the Young Man and his Cat,

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The Twelfth Ode of the First Book of Horace,

Tranflated,

The XXIId Ode of the First Book of Horace,

A Prologue for the Strollers,
Pfalm VIII, Tranflated,
Pfalm XXIV, Paraphrased,

Pfalm XXIX,

Pfalm XLVI, Paraphrafed,
Pfalm XC, Paraphrased,

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Pfalm CXXXIX, Paraphrafed, in Miltonic Verfe, 72
Pfalm-CXLIV, Paraphrased,

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The Third Chapter of Job,

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Job, Chap. XXV, Paraphrafed,

The Song of Mofes, in the XVth Chapter of
Exodus, Paraphrased,

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The Third Ode of the Second Book of Horace,
Paraphrafed,

The Third Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace,
Paraphrafed,

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To Mr. Pope, on his Tranflation of Homer's

Iliad,

Specimen of a Translation of the Odyssey,

On his Majesty's Playing with a Tiger in Ken-

fington Gardens,

A Dialogue between a Poet and his Servant, in

Imitation of Horace, Book II. Sat. VII.

Ode to John Pitt, Efq. advising him to build a

Banquet-house on a Hill that overlooks the

Sea,

Ode to John Pitt, Efq. on the fame Subject,

On Mrs. Walker's Poems, particularly that on

the Author,

Verfes on a Flowered Carpet, worked by the

Young Ladies at Kingston,

Verfes on a Flowered Carpet,

On the Art of Preaching. A Fragment. In Imi-

tation of Horace's Art of Poetry,

Invitation to Mr. Dodington. In Allufion to Ho-

race, Book I. Epistle V.

Mr. R. Pitt, to his Brother C. Pitt. On his

having a Fit of the Gout,

Written in the Folds of a Pin-paper,

De Minimis Maxima. Autore Ludovico Dun-

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combe,

Tranflation of the foregoing, by Mr. Pitt,

An Epitaph, infcribed on a Stone that covers his

Father, Mother, and Brother,

A Poem on the Death of Earl Stanhope,

Epitaph on Dr. Keil, the famous Aftronomer,

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Horace,

Horace, Book II. Ep. XIX. Imitated. An Epiftle

to Mr. Robert Lowth,

To Mr. Spence, prefixed to the Effay on Pope's

Odyffey,

Imitation of Spenfer,

Epifle to J. Pitt, Efq. in Imitation of Horace,

Epiftle to Mr. Spence, in Imitation of Horace,

Invitation to a Friend at Court,

Epifle to Mr. Spence, when Tutor to Lord Mid-

dlesex; in Imitation of Horace,

Vida's Art of Poetry,

Virgil's Æneid. Book I.

-Book II,

-Book III,

END OF THE FIFTY-SECOND VOLUME.