But if fimplicity, with force and fire, Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words inspire; If, like the action which thefe fcenes relate, The whole appear irregularly great; If mafter-strokes the nobler paffions move: 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, WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS OF THE ELEGIAC. H 4 IV. On LIBET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE, LABVNTVR ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE; VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT †. INGENIO IMMORTALI IACOBI THOMSON, POETAE SVBLIMIS, VIRI BONI; AEDICVLAM HANC, QVEM VIVVS DILEXIT, GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.' CONTENTS OF LYTTELTON'S POEMS. THE PROGRESS OF LOVE. To the Reverend Dr. Ayfcough, at Oxford. Writ- ten from Paris in the Year 1728, Ode, in Imitation of Paftor Fido. Written Abroad Song. Written in the Year 1732, Verses written at Mr. Pope's Houfe at Twicken- To Mr. Weft, at Wickham. Written in the Year 1740, 4.9 50 ibid. Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont, 79 80 Mount Edgecumbe, Invitation. To the Dowager Duchefs D'Aiguillon, 86 Epitaph on Captain Grenville, ibid. 88 On Captain Cornwall, flain off Toulon, 1743, ibid. On Good Humour. 1729, Some Additional Stanzas to Aftolfo's Voyage to the Moon, in Ariosto, - To a Young Lady. With the Tragedy of Venice Infcription for a Buft of Lady Suffolk; defigned Sulpicia to Cerinthus, 95 ib. 96 ibid. Το Cato's Speech to Labienus, in the Ninth Book of Lucan, |