ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIX'D,

AN ESSAY

ON THE

LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS;

In TWO LETTERS infcribed to

The Right Honourable JAMES Lord DESKFOORD.

By JOHN OGILVIE, A. M.

A.Walker del.it joulp.

LONDON:

Printed for G. KEITH, at the Bible-and-Crown in Gracechurch-Street.

M. DCC. LXII.

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CONTENTS.

An ESSAY on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS.

MISCELLANEOUS POEM S.

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VERSES to a Lady, with VOLTAIRE'S Temple of Tafte 112

An Elegy on the DEATH of a LINnet

An EVENING Piece

To the Memory of Mr. H*** M***. An Elegy

To the Memory of the late pious and ingenious

Mr. HERVEY

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