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236 might be entertained, and prepared for greater alterations, whereby the dignity of tragedy might be ſupported, and its principal characters juſtly diſtinguiſhed.

Beſides the works which we have already mentioned, Mr. Dennis is author of the following pieces, moſtly in the Pindaric way.


 * Upon our Victory at Sea, and burning the French Fleet at La Hogne in 1692.

Part of the Te Deum Paraphraſed, in Pindaric Verſe.

To Mr. Dryden, upon his Tranſlation of the Third Book of Virgil’s Georgics. Pindaric Ode.

A Pindaric Ode on the King, written in the begining of Auguſt 1691; occaſioned by the Victory at Aghrim.

To a Painter drawing a Lady’s Picture, an Epigram.

Prayer for the King’s Safety in the Summer’s Expedition in 1692, an Epigram.

The Court of Death, a Pindaric Poem; dedicated to the Memory of her Moſt Sacred Majeſty Queen Mary.

The Paſſion of Byblis, made Engliſh from the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoſis.

The Monument, a Poem; ſacred to the Memory of the beſt, and greateſt of Kings, William III.

Britannia Triumphans, or A Poem on the Battle of Blenheim; dedicated to Queen Anne.

On the Acceſſion of King George to the Imperial Crown of Great Britain. The following ſpecimen, which is part of a Paraphraſe on the Te Deum, ſerves to ſhew, that Mr. Dennis wrote with more elegance in Pindaric odes, than in blank verſe. Now