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Title: Bedlam [Latin epigraph]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Description of and reflections on a madhouse, or lunatic asylum, and its various inhabitants
Title: An ode
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Expression of happiness and content with the natural pleasures of life,
spurning riches and ambition
Title: A song
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Love poem, on the everlasting qualities of virtue and wisdom compared with
the transience of external beauty
Title: A prologue to Cato, as it was acted by some young gentlemen at the time of
the threatned invasion from Spain in 1717
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1717 ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: On how Cato's action in saving Rome, in Addison's play, should be an example
to the English when threatened with a Spanish invasion, even though his
character has at other times been variously interpreted
Title: Upon the poets corner in Westminster Abbey
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: On how the poets buried in Westminster Abbey will be remembered and honoured
longer than any others buried there
Title: An epigram
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Lighthearted satire on the lack of sense of a vain and boastful friend, a
would-be poet
Title: Another
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Lighthearted satire on an over-witty acquaintance, foretelling that he will
end up losing friends and being despised
Title: Another
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Lighthearted satire on the lack of thought displayed by an acquaintance who
fancies himelf a great freethinker
Title: A fable
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: A version of Aesop's fable of the fox and the cat, commending the virtues of
honesty and common sense
Title: The Muses complaint. Humbly addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of
Middlesex. [Latin epigraph]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Attack on contemporary writers of genuine talent who debase their art by
producing bawdy immoral material to please the popular stage. Praise of
Addison and Steele, in contrast, and of the poem's dedicatee, Charles
Sackville, Earl of Middlesex
Title: A prologue to Julius Caesar, spoke by a young nobleman of Westminster School
before the Queen and the royal family in the year 1727
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1727 ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Contrast between Julius Caesar's ambition, which brought him into conflict
with the citizens of Rome, and the perfect harmony of interest between George
II and his people
Title: Chearfullness
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: In praise of cheerfulness, possible only if contentment and virtue
characterise one's life