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Mr. NICHOLAS AMHURST. VINCE the Printing off my Account of this Gentleman, he has Published a Collection of Poems on feveral Occafions, beginning with.

The Mofaical Creation; Deftruction of Pharaoh in the Red-Sea; on the Death of Mr. Addison, Imitations of Catullus, &c.

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JOHN BULKLEY Efq;

UTHOR of the Letters to the Reverend Dr. Clarke. on Liberty and Neceffity; and late of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. He was a very ingenious Gentleman, and has written a Poem, call'd, The Laft Day. In Blank Verfe, contain'd' in twelve Books.

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Mr. CONGREVE.

HIS Gentleman has lately oblig'd us with two Tales from Fontaine, entitled,

I. The Impoffible Thing.

II. The Man that loft his Heifer,

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Gentleman, who has given us a Translation of the Works of TIBULLUS. 1720

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Mrs. MARTHA FOWKE.

N accomplish'd Young Lady now living. Her Poetical Works,have been generally publish'd under the Name of Clio; and the most of them that have appear'd together, are contain'd in a fmall Volume Entitled the Epiftles of Clio and Strephon. A few excellent Copies are to be met with in the Ingenious Mr. Hammond's Mifcellany, the chief whereof, addrefs'd to Him, fhe calls Clio's Picture. +

By the Pieces this Lady has written, she seems to be poffefs'd of fuch a Genius, as would well Enable her to fhew her felf no lefs an Ornament to the British, than Madam Dacier is to the French Nation.

ANTHONY HAMMOND Efq;

Gentleman defcended from a good Family, of Somerfham-Place, in the County of Hutingdon. He has long fince, by his great Eloquence, diftinguifh'd himself in the House of Commons; and his Merit has recommended him to very confiderable publick Employments; particularly that of being one of the Commiffioners of the Royal Navy, &c. His Character is justly defcrib'd by the ingenious Mr. Southern, "If Gene

rofity, (fays he) with Friendship, Learning with found Senfe, True Wit and Humour with good "Nature, be Accomplishments to qualify a Gen"tleman for a Patrón, I am fure I have hit right in " Mr. Hammond."

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See The Innocent Adultery, Dedicated to Mr. Hammond.

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He has juft now oblig'd the Publick with a Mifcellany of Original Poems by the moft Eminent Hands, So. 1/20. in which Himself has no fmall Share. As to his own Pieces, he acknowledges, in his Preface, that they were written at very different Times, and are now Own'd by him, left hereafter they fhould be afcrib'd to other Perfons to their Prejudice; As the ODE ON SOLITUDE has lately been in wrong to the Earl of Rofcommon, and as fome of the reft have been to others.

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JOHN HUGHES Efq;

R. John Hughes dy'd the 17th Day of February laft, of a lingring Disease, very much lamented; and 'twas remarkable, that he expir'd the very Night his Play, call'd, The Siege of Damafcus, which has incomparable Lines in it on Death, was firft acted with great Approbation. He left behind him the best Character; that of an ingenious, modeft, inoffenfive Man. He was bury'd in St. Andrew's Church, Holbourn, with great Privacy, at his own Requeft. There have been publifh'd of his, fince his Death, the following Pieces.

I. The Ecftafy. An Ode. This is an excellent Performance.

x II. A Monumental Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes.

Mrs. MOLESWORTH.

THIS Lady dy'd the Wife of George Monk Esq;

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Dr. PATRICK,

Learned Divine, late Lord Bishop of Ely.
There has been publifh'd, fince his Death,
of his Lordship's Writing, a Volume of Poems,
On Divine and Moral Subjects.

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Mr. POMFRET.

Mitted in this Gentleman's Account, a Poem, entitled,

Reafon. A Satire. Written and Printed in the Year 1700. occafion'd by the Trinitarian Controverfy then on foot.

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Mr. PRIOR.

HIS celebrated Poet has lately publish'd a fmall Piece, call'd,

The Converfation. A Tale.

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Mifcellany of Poems, viz. On Confcience;

Beauty; The Force of Mufick; Song of Troilus, &c.
Dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle.

Dr. SMALRIDGE, late Bishop of Bristol.

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THIS eminent Divine and Poet, dy'd at Chrift-
Church College in Oxford, on the 27th day of
September, 1719. and was interr'd in Weftminster-
Abbey.

× Vide A New Collection of Original Poems INDEX
nover Printed in any miselllary. By the author
of Sir Walter Raleigh. 500. 14/20.

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Anniversary.

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X Annus Mirabilis, the Tear of Batt upon Batt.

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Wonders.

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Baucis and Philemon,

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X Art of Cookery.

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Beauties.

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XArt of Love.

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