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But if fimplicity, with force and fire,

Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words infpire;

If, like the action which thefe fcenes relate,

The whole appear irregularly great;

If master-strokes 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 SVPERIMPEN

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.

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IV. On

IV. On the Pedestal of an URN *,

ALEXANDRO POPE;

POETARVM ANGLICANORVM

ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQVE;
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:

FONTESQVE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS
SOMNOS QVOD INVITET LEVES.

VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT t.

INGENIO IMMORTALI

IACOBI THOMSON,

POETAE SVBLIMIS,

VIRI BONI;

AEDICVLAM HANC, QVEM VIVVS DILEXIT,
POST MORTEM EIVS CONSTRVCTAM,
DICAT DEDICATQVE

GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.

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

A very handfome and well-finished building, in an octagonal line.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

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LYTTELTON'S POEMS.

THE PROGRESS OF LOVE.

Eclogues.

I. Uncertainty. To Mr. Pope,

II. Hope. To Mr. Doddington,

III. Jealoufy. To Mr. Edward Walpole,
IV. Poffeffion. To Lord Cobham,

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