Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

........ 286

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to

His Majesty,

191

GAY.

The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the

Nun's Priest ..

192

The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in

Rural Sports. A Georgic. In Two Cantos.

: or, the Art of walking the Streets of

London. In Three Books.

Book I. Of the Implements for Walking

J. PHILIPS

the Streets, and Signs of the

The Splendid Shilling.....

208

Weather

287

Cyder: a Poem, in two Books.

II. Of Walking the Streets by Day 289

Book I.

III. Of Walking the Streets by Night 294

II.

215 Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan 297

A Ballad, from the What-d'ye-call-it

ib.

Fable. The Goat without a Beard

298

PARNELL.

Fable. The Universal Apparition

ib.

Fable. The Jugglers........

299

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style 221 Fable. The Harc and many Friends

ib.

A Night-Piece on Death

223 The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals 800 X

The Hermit.....

224

Monday;

Hesiod : or, The Rise of Woman

; or, the Squabble........

226

Tuesday: or, the Ditty

302

An Allegory on Man.

227

Wednesday; or, the Dumps

The Book-Worm

.................. SOS

228

Thursday; or, the Spell......

305

Friday; or, the Dirge

Saturday ; or, the Flights

308

ROWE.

Fable. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven... 309

Colin's Complaint. A Song ...

Fable. The Turkey and the Ant

230

The Contented Shepherd. To Mrs. A-

D- afterwards his Wife

231

A Song.

Ah! Willow. To the Same in her

GREEN.

Sickness

ib,

The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert

Jackson

310

ADDISON.

On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers 317

The Seeker

ib.

A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon. Charles The Grotto. Written by Mr. Green, under

Lord Halifax, in the year 1701

232 the name of Peter Drake, a fisherman of

-The Campaign. A Poem .......

234

Brentford...

318

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the

The Sparrow and Diamond.

A Song

King

237

Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII.

TICKELL.

PRIOR.

Colin and Lucy. A Ballad

921

(Henry and Emma. A Poem, upon the Model To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr.

240

of the Nut-Brown Maid......

Addison

322

Alma :

: or, the Progress of the Mind. In An Imitation of the Prophesy of Nereus.

Three Cantos.

From Horace, Book II. (de XV. 323

Canto 1.

246 An Epistle from a Lady in England to a

253 An Ode, inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland

et Windsor .......

325

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem,

The Thief and the Cordelier. A Ballad 279 Elegy

......................

ib.

281

The Female Phon n

ih | The Chase. In Four Books.

The Despair. Shepherd

Bouk I.

An Ode

ib.

II.

The Lady's Looking-Glassa In imitation of

III.

Greek Idyllium

IV.

..........

9821

2010

syneands.

.........

............

...... 469

The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical

Spring ....

415

Poem. In Five Cantos.

348 The Castle of Indolence: an Allegorical Poem.

IV.

................. 349

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato 352

II.

463

Eloisa to Abelard

ib Ancient and Modern Italy compared . being

The Temple of Fame.

355

the First Part of “ Liberty," a Poem

The Fable of Dryope. From Ovid's Meter Greece : being the Second Part of “ Liberty,” 472

morphoses, Book ix.

359 Rome: being the Third Part of “ Liberty,". 477

Vertumnus and Pomona. From the same, Britain : being the Fourth Part of “ Liberty," 482

Book IV.

360 The Prospect : being the Fifth Part of

An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles.

492

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man Ode

498

with respect to the Universe 361 The Happy Man

ib.

II. Of the Nature and State of Man

Song

ib.

with respect to Himself, as

III. Of the Nature and State of Man

Hymn on Solitude

ib,

with respect to Society 366 To the Rev. Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Strad-

IV. Of the Nature and State of Man

dishall, in Suffolk

ib.

with respect to Happiness 368

Moral Essays. In Five Epistles to several

Persons.

A. PHILIPS.

Epistle I. Of the Knowledge and Cha-

racters of Men......... (372 To the Earl of Dorset

500

II. Of the Characters of Women 374 | A Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho 501

III. On the Use of Riches

376 A Fragment of Sappho

ib.

IV. Of the Use of Riches

379

V. To Mr. Addison, occasioned by

his Dialogues on Medals... 381

COLLINS.

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue

to the Satires

382 | Ode to Pity

Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue, in imitation of Ode to Fear

503

Virgil's Pollio.

385 Ode, written in the year 1746

ib.

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 386 Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles

Satire

ib. Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy

............ 504

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Ode to Evening

The Passions, an Ode for Music

An Ode on the popular Superstitions of the

Cadenus and Vanessa

390 Highlands of Scotland; considered as the

Suella's Birth-day :

(397 Subject of Poetry

The Journal of a Modern Lady, in a Letter to Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

a Person of Quality ....

ib.

On the Death of Dr. Swift for. ......

399

Baucis and Philemon. On the ever-lamented

DYER.

loss of the two Yew-trees the Parish of

Chilthorne, Somerset. Imitated from the Grongar Hill .....

511

Eighth Book of Ovid..........

403 | The Ruins of Home

512

A Description of the Morning

405

The Grand Question Debated: Whether Ha-

milton's Bawn should be turned into a Bar-

SHENSTONE.

rack or a Malt-house

ib.

On Poetry: a Rhapsody

406 The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser 517

A Description of a City-Shower, in imitation Elegy, describing the sorrow of an ingenuous

of Virgil's Georgics

410 mind, on the melancholy event of a licen-

Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of

tious amour .....

520

Oxford, late Lord Treasurer. Sent to him

Pastoral Ballad. In Four Parts.

when in the Tower

411 Part 1. Absence.

521

Mrs. Harris's Petition

ib.

II. Hope

ib.

To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded

III. Solicitude.

522

the British Forces in Spain...

412 IV. Disappointment.

ib.

The Progress of Poetry

.........

524 The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues.

Eclogue I. Uncertainty.....

A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job ..... 533

IV. Possession

669

The Complaint : or, Night-Thoughts.

To the Rev. Dr. Ayscough, at Oxford

ib.

Night the First : on Life, Death, and Im.

Night the Second: on Time, Death, and

To the Memory of the first Lady Lyttelton.

Night the Third : Narcissa..................... 545

A Monody

ib.

Night the Fourth : the Christian Triumph : 549

Night the Fifth: the Relapse .................. 555

GOLDSMITH.

Night the Sixth : the Infidel Reclaimed. In

Two Parts. Part I.

569 The Traveller : or, a Prospect of Society 675

Night the Seventh : the Infidel Reclaimed. The Deserted Village

678

Part II,

............. 570 The Hermit. A Ballad

681

Night the Eighth : Virtue's Apology; or, Retaliation. A Poem

682

the Man of the World answered........... 582 Stanzas on Woman. From the Vicar of Wake-

Night the Ninth and Last: the Consola- field

684

tion

ib.

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In

Seven Characteristical Satires.

London: a Poem. In imitation of the Third

The Vanity of Human Wishes. In imitation

618

of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal

688

VI.

623

Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the open-

VII.

627

ing of the Theatre - Royal, Drury-lane, 1747, 691

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser

AKENSIDE.

ib.

in Physic

........................

...........................

Tlc Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem, in

ARMSTRONG.

Three Books,

Book I.

The Art of preserving Health. In Four Books.

Ode to the Right Honourable Francis Earl of

Ode to the Right Rev. Benjamin, Lord Bishop

J. WARTON.

of Winchester

Ode to Fancy

Verses, written at Montauban in France 711

Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard ib.

Ode to the First of April

715

The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode.... 6:54 Ode. The Crusade

ib.

Ode on the Spring

655

The Progress of Discontent

714

Ode for Music

656

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned

Inscription in a Hermitage, at Ansley Hall,

in Warwickshire ....

in a Tub of Gold Fishes.....

657

Ode. The Hamlet

716

Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College ib.

Ode sent to a friend, on his leaving a fa-

The Bard. A Pindaric Ode.

vourite Village in Hampshire

ib.

The Fatal Sisters. An Ode ............... 660 The Pleasures of Melancholy

717

The Descent of Odin. An Ode

661

The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment ib.

The Tears of Scotland

Ode to Leven-Water

Ode to Independence..

Ode to Memory

720

Ode to Independency......

...... 721

663 | Elegy on the Death of a Lady

792

ib. Epitaph on Mrs. Mason, in the Cathedral of

Boadicea. An Ode ............................. 724 Verses supposed to be written by Alexander
Heroisin

ib. Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Island of Juan Fernandez

791
Norfolk, the Gift of my Cousin Ann Bod- John Gilpin

792

ham......

725 An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.

The Task. In Six Books.

IV. The Winter Evening

752 The Minstrel: or, The Progress of Genius.

V. The Winter-Morning Walk 758 In Two Books.

VI. The Winter Walk at Noon

764 Book 1.

798

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