An Occasional Prologue to“ The Wheel of Fortune" 97 Reply to some verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq. on the Cruel- Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author, complaining that one of his Descriptions was Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled "The Common To a Lady who presented the Author with the Velvet Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on his advis- ib. The Death of Calmar and Orla. An Imitation of Mac- L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes Oh! had my fate been join'd with thine ! I would I were a careless Child When I roved a young Highlander Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of HOURS OF IDLENESS: А SERIES OF POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. I Virginibus puerisque canto. Horace, lib. 3. Ode 1. HOMER, Iliad, x. 249. DRYDEN. 1 ? [First published in 1807.) VOL. I. B [Isabella, daughter of William, fourth Lord Byron (greatgreat uncle of the Poet), became, in 1742, the wife of Henry, fourth Earl of Carlisle, and was the mother of the fifth Earl, to whom this dedication was addressed. This lady was a poetess in her way. The Fairy's Answer to Mrs. Greville's “ Prayer for Indifference,” in Pearch's Collection, is usually ascribed to her.] |