An ACCOUNT of the LIFE, CHARACTER,
and WRITINGS, of the AUTHOR,

By the Reverend Mr. SPENCE,

Late Professor of POETRY, at Oxford.

The THIRD EDITION.

Mary Dandridge 1771.

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR, by R. and J. DODSLEY,
in Pallmall.

M.DCC.LVI.

828

B629p 1756

CONTENTS.

N Account of the Life, Character, and Poems,

A of the Author.

Page i.

HORACE, Ode I. imitated: Inscribed to Dr. JOHN

188

STEVENSON, Phyfician in Edinburgh.

P. I

Pfalm I. imitated.

5

An Hymn to the Supreme Being: In imitation of the

CIV. Pfalm.

و

Pfalm CXXXIX. imitated.

17

An Hymn to Divine Love: In imitation of Spencer.

To a young Gentleman bound for Guinea: An Ode.

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An