The poems and miscellaneous compositions : of Paul Whitehead ; with explanatory notes on his writings, and his life written by Captain Edward Thompson. With a head of the author, from a painting by Mr. Gainsborough.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface.
- Life of Paul Whitehead.
- The state dunces, a satire. -Manners, a satire.
- The gymnasiad, or boxing-match.
- Honour, a satire.
- An epistle to Doctor Thompson.
- Song addressed to the ladies.
- Song in the entertainment of The fair.
- A new occasional song.
- Songs in the entertainment of Apollo and Daphne.
- Song for the annual meeting of the governors of the London hospital.
- A ballad.
- A fragment. -Verses on Lady Pomfret's present of antique statues to Oxford.
- To Doctor King.
- The butterfly and bee.
- Verses dropt in Mr. Garrick's temple of Shakespeare.
- Cupid baffled.
- Verses on the death of Prince Frederick. -Extempore on hearing of Mr. Pope's death.
- Death and the doctor.
- Occasional prologue, at the opening of Covent-Garden Theatre.
- Verses on converting into a kitchen the chapel at the Grove, Lord Donnerayle's seat in Herts.
- Verses on the duke of Cumberland's victory at Culloden, 1746.
- Verses inscribed on the tomb of care, a monument in Mr. Rich's garden at Cowley.
- Epitaph on a marble pyramid of the monument of the duke of Argyle.
- Verses on the name, P. Whitehead, being erased from the above epitaph.
- Verses to the memory of Mrs. Pritchard.
- Verses to Mr. Brooke, on the refusal of a licence to his play of Gustavus [Vasa]
- A song.
- To Dr. Schomberg of Bath.