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: 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, WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS OF THE ELEGIAC. H 4 IV. On IV. On the Pedestal of an URN *, ALEXANDRO POPE; POETARVM ANGLICANORVM ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQVE; SACRA ESTO. ANN. DOM. MDCCXLIV. V. On a BENCH. LIBET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE, LABVNTVR ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE; FONTESQVE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT t. INGENIO IMMORTALI IACOBI THOMSON, POETAE SVBLIMIS, VIRI BONI; AEDICVLAM HANC, QVEM VIVVS DILEXIT, 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 O F LYTTELTON'S POEMS. THE PROGRESS OF LOVE. Eclogues. I. Uncertainty. To Mr. Pope, II. Hope. To Mr. Doddington, III. Jealoufy. To Mr. Edward Walpole, Soliloquy of a Beauty in the country. Written at Blenheim. Written at the University of Oxford, in the Year 1727, To the Reverend Dr. Ayfcough, at Oxford. Writ- - To Mr. Poyntz, Ambafador at the Congress of 6 10 14 17 19 25 30 Verses to be written under a Picture of Mr. Poyntz, 33 34 37 39 Song. Parts of an Elegy of Tibullus. Tranflated 50 1729-30, Song. Written in the Year 1732, Verses written at Mr. Pope's House at Twicken- 1725, 75 On Captain Cornwall, flain off Toulon, 1743, ibid. 1729, 89 Sulpicia to Cerinthus, in her Sickness. From Ti- ib. |