Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
Ode to Melancholy [from Poems on Several Occasions]
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789)<br>
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See <u>Poems on Several Occasions.</u> (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42628">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CB130752242&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bOlbAAAAQAAJ">Link 2nd edition in  Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=w8gNAAAAQAAJ">See also 3rd edition of 1776 in Google Books</a>&gt;