PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ATOR. LENOX AN
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1642

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Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS, 75, Great Queen Street,
Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

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THE HAUNCH OF VENISON; A POETICAL EPISTLE TO

LORD CLARE

71

THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. [Now printed from the

Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a

Roman Knight, whom Cæsar forced upon the stage.

Preserved by Macrobius.........

The Logicians Refuted.

ib.

In Imitation of Dean Swift ... 112

PAGE

Epigram on a Beautiful Youth, struck blind by Light-.

ning.

........ 114

Stanzas on the taking of Quebec, and Death of General

Wolfe

Stanzas.

115

"Weeping, murmuring, complaining.” ...... ib.

The Gift. To Iris ........

116

118

..... 120

An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize... 117

Description of an Author's Bed-chamber

Song, "O Memory! thou fond deceiver !"

Song. "The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part.".

The Double Transformation. A Tale

A New Simile. In the manner of Swift

.....

... ib.

121

125

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.................

... ib.

Epitaph on Edward Purdon

129

Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Sister"

130

Verses, in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Sir George

Baker's. [Now first printed]

132

Epitaph on Dr. Parnell

134

Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Good-Natured Man." ib.

Prologue to the Tragedy of " Zobeide"

135

An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley

137

Threnodia Augustalis; sacred to the Memory of Her

Royal Highness, the Princess Dowager of Wales... 139

Letter, in Prose and Verse, to Mrs. Bunbury. [Now

first printed]......

149

Epilogue to the Comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer;

or the Mistakes of a Night"

158

Epilogue to the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer;"

intended to be spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss

Catley

.......

155

Song. "Ah me! when shall I marry me?"

158

Epilogue; spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the Character

of Harlequin, at his benefit

159

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DRAMAS.

THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. A COMEDY

163

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER; OR THE MISTAKES OF A

NIGHT. A COMEDY

247

SCENE FROM THE GRUMBLER; A FARCE. [Now first

printed]

..........

333

CRITICISM RELATING TO POETRY AND THE

BELLES-LETTRES.

V. Home's Tragedy of Douglas

VI. Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius

VII. Gray's Odes.........

VIII. Wise's Enquiries concerning the First Inhabitants,

Language, Religion, Learning, and Letters of

Europe

IX. Bayly's Introduction to Languages, Literary and

395

XIII. Marriott's Female Conduct; an Essay on the Art

of Pleasing. To be practised by the Fair Sex,

before and after Marriage .....

426

XVI. Langhorne's Death of Adonis, from the Greek of

XVII. Ward on Oratory

XVIII. Murphy's Orphan of China

XIX. Dr. Young's Conjectures on Original Composi-

tion; in a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles

Grandison

445

450

453

..... 463

xx. Thyer's Genuine Remains, in Prose and Verse, of

Samuel Butler.........

XXI.

466

The Twentieth Epistle of Horace to his Book

modernized, by the Author of Female Conduct... 484

XXII. Dunkin's Epistle to Lord Chesterfield

488

XXIII. Goguet on the Origin and Progress of Laws, Arts,

and Sciences

493