A worthless Person can claim no Merit from Description of Ships appearing at a Distance, ib. 720 and approaching the shore Dryden 722 The Love of our Country the greatest of Virtue preferable to Rank Thomson 720 Description of an anticnt Cathedral Congteve 722 . IV. IVhitenead 721 Description of a Triumph 1. what Philosophy really consists Thomson 721 A Shepherd's Life happier than a King's Scipio restoring the captive Princess to her The Blessings of Peace-- Providence ib, 721 No Difficulties insuperable to the Prudent Prudence - - - ib. 7221 and Brave - - . ib. 729 · BOOK IV. SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. . . Milion 723 Garden of Adonis...Devastation which Time ib. 724 makcsin this Garden---Descriprionof Jupiter , ib. 726 --Guyon conducted by Mammon through a Virtue, Wisdom, and Contemplation; Medi Cave under Ground, to see his Treasure- tation and Beauty; Chastity - ib. 727 Description of Despair and her Speech - 752 Philosophy -- True Liberty – Prowess of Body and Mind-On Shakopeare--Song on Nay Morning -- Virtue and Evil ib. 728 Description of the Vision conjured up by Patience-Sonnet on his deceased Wife Spirits -- Pain--Hypocrisy-- The Lady re- Image of Armida and Attendants, enraged at proving Coinus --Sounet to the Nightingalei Rinaldo's hewing down the Myrtle to dis- ib. 730 Description of Armida's wonderful Parrot - 755 VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS FROM SPENSER. Adonis's Garden - Affections — Ambition - 730 Avguish-Arbor--Avarice -- Bashfulness • 731 | Leonidas's Address to his Countrymen - An- Another -- Beauty Boar-Bower of Bliss - 782! swer to the Persian Ambassador -- Pathetic Farewell of Leonidas to his wife and Family 755 Bullo-Calumny--Cannon--Charity--Concord | Characters of Teribazus and Ariana -- Ariana and Polydorus come by Night into the Defamation-'Desire--Detraction--Discord. 736 History of Porsenna* Doubt--Dungeon--Eagle--Ease---Envy - 738 Error-Excess-Faith Falcon-Fancy . 739 On the Departure of the Nightingale-- Writ- Fear - Ship - Feeling -- Fire---First Age-- ten at the Close of Spring--Should the lone Wanderer--To Night--To Tranquillity --- Gluttony - Greediness - Grief Griffon - Written in the Church-yard at Middleton Grove -- Harmony -- Hearing - - 741 in Sussex---Written at Penshurst, in Au- Hermitage _Hippolitus --Honor - Hope-- turn 1788 . 742 Elegy--Elegy to Pity . Anon. 767 Idleness--Ignorance - Inconstancy-Incon Extract from a Poem on his own approaching Life Lion - Love -- Madness --- Mastiff --- Sonnet to twilight . Miss Williams 768 Mercy--- Minerva --- Morning - . 745 Sonne: to Hope Mountain - Mutability.-- Night Occasion--- Palace of sleep ---Tyger --- Winds on the Recovery of a Lady of Quality from Sight---Slander --- Storm --Superstition . 748 Ode to Pity Suspicion --- Venus--- Temple of Venus - 749 Ode to Fear Ode,written in the Year 1746-Ode to Mercy Duessa wecping over her Enemy, compared -Ode to Liberty . . ** ib. 771 to a Crocodile; and a Description of Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Colonel Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Description of Lucifera's Palace --- Lucifera ascending her Coach ---Description of. Tode to Evening --Ode to Peace_The Man Prince Arthúr in his Habiliments of War ners, an Ode ... Description of Diana with her Nymphs, The Passions. An Ode to Music. ib. 775 returned from the Chace, and preparing to The Paper's Funeral Description of a Garden --Description of the The Village Infidel By an error of the press this poem is attributed to Mr. Lisle Bowles instead of Dr. Lisle, sese. ral of whose poetical pieces are to be found in Dodsley's Collection. Edit, 1758. Page 1 dead sm Page Funeral of the Lady of the Manor Crabbe 777 | The Family Fireside - Bishep 797 Funeral of an antient Maiden ib. 778 Flowers ib. 798 Funeral of Isaac Ashford, a virtuous Pea To a young Lady, with a Copy of Moore's sant ib. 779 Fables ib. 798 An Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas Han The Library ib. 799 ner, on his Edition of Shakspeare's Works Water ib. 800 Collins 779 On Instruments of Music ib. 800 Dirge in Cymbeline, sung by Guiderus and The Art of Dancing. Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. Arviragus over Fidele, supposed to be 1 the Lady Fanny Fielding 801 ib781 | Whitsuntide. Written at Winchester College, Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson ib. 7,81 on the immediate Approach of the Holidays 806 Verses written on a Paper which contained a Christmas . 806 Piece of Bride-Cake i. 10. 702 | An Elegy on the Death o ib. 782 An Elegy on the Death of a mad Dog Goldsmith 806 To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest L'Allegro; or Fun, a Parody ". 807 with the Plough, in November 1785 Burns 782 The Picture - - Cunningham 808 To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down The Modern Tine Gentleman. Written in the with the Plough, in April 1786 ib. 782 Year 1746 - Soume Jenyns 808 An Essay upon unnatural Flights in Poetry | An Epistle, written in the Country, to the Lansdown 783 Right Honorable the Lord Lovelace, then To Mr. Spence, prefixed to the Essay on in Town, September 1735 . ib. 809 Pope's Odyssey · Pitt 784 | Horace. Book II. Ode 10 - Cowper 811 The inquiry. Written in the last Century 784 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode ib. 811 The diverting History of John Gilpin ; show. The Shrubbery. Written in a Time of Amic.. ing how he went farther than he intended, tion - Mutual Forbearance necessary to and came safe home again Cowper 784| the Happiness of the Married State . ib 81. En Evening Contemplation in a College; in The Winter Nosegay ib. 819 Imitation of Gray's Elegy in a Country Boadicea, an Ode ib. 812 Church-yard . ib. 812 The Three Warnings. A Tale Mrs. Thrule 788 Art above Nature . Peter Pindar 813 The Cit's Country Box - Lloyd 789 The Crooked Sixpence . Brumston 814 Report of an adjudged Case, not to be found The Copper Farthing . Pennington 815 in any of the Books - Cowper 790 | The School-Boy. By the Rev. Mr. Maurice. On the Birth Day of Shakspeare. A Canto 1 Author of the Indian Antiquities. Written Berenger 790 by him at a very early Age . On the Invention of Letters 790 | Written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699 *The Answer -- On a Spider 791 con me The Extent of Cookery Shepstone 291 Mrs Harris's Petition 819 Slender's Ghost ib. 791 A Description of the Morning. 1709 820 Hamlet's Soliloquy imitated Jago 791 A Description of a City Shower. In Imitation To the Memory of George Lewis Langton, 1 of Virgil's Georgics. 1710 820 Esq. who died on his Travels to Rome On the little House by the Church-yard of Shipley 792 Castlenock. 1710 821 The Brewer's Coachman Taylor 732 | The Fable of Midas. 1711 . 821 Ode on the Death of Matzel, a favorite Buil A Dialogue between a Member of Parliament fiach. Addresscd to Philip Stanhope, Esq. and his Servant, in Imitation of Horace, Sat. (natural Son to the Earl of Chesterfield) to II. vii. First printed in 1752 . 829 whom the Author had given the Reversion The Intruder. In linitation of Horace, Sat. I. of it when he left Dresden Williums 792 ix. First printed in 1754 824 To-morrow - On Lord Cobham's Gardens Horace, Book I. En. VII. Addressed to the - To a Child five Years Old Cotton 793 Earl of Oxford. 1713 To Miss Fortescue - . 826 To Mr. West, at Wickham, 1740 . ib. 733 A True and Faithful Inventory of the Goods The Temple of the Muses. To the Countess belonging to Dr. Swift, Vicar of Laracor ; Temple upon lending his House to the Bishop of Wilkes 794 who died the 6td of July 1720 - 1798. Written in Prison . - ib. 794 Bormount, upon praising her Husband to . 829 Tony Candle Peter Pindur 796 Riddles, by Dr.Swift and his Friends, written Presented together with a Knife by the Rev. in or about the Year 1724-On a Pen 829 Samuel Bishop, Head Master of Merchant On Gold - On a Corkscrew --On a Circle 796 Time-On the Vowels-On Snow - On a By the same, with a Ring 797 Cannon > Book II. Sat. VI. Maurice o 910 Page! ib. 90 in no very good Repair. 1725 – The To Miss , on her giving the Author a grand Question debated, Whether Hamil Gold and Silk Net-work Purse of her own ton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack, 1 weaving ib. 90 or a Malt-House. 1729 . ib. 904 On the Death of Dr. Swift, occasioned by read. Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer - ib. 90 ing the following Maxim in Rochefoucauit, Sonnets. Written at Wynslade in Hampshire “ Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, - On Bathing i . Iartun 904 “ nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monas. , “ ne nous deplait pas." - 831 ricon - Written at Stonehenge — Written The Author . Churchill 838 after seeing Wilton-House — To Mr. Gray A poor Woman's Lamentation on her Son be - Sonnet On King Arthur's Round Ta. ing slain in a Field of Battle - 8411 ble at Winchester-To the River Lodon ib. 90 Lines.on a Ball given to pro note the Silk Ma The Old Cheese king 90€ nufacture 842 The Pilgrim and the Peas Peter Pindar 906 On the late Queen of France 842 A Country Bumpkin and the Razor-seller ib. 907 Verses by Dr. Glynn . The Bald-pated Welchinan and the Fly Hohenlinden, the Scene of an Engagement be Somerville 907 tween the French and Imperialists, in The Incurious Bencher - - tb. 908 which the foriner were conquered ;. | The Frogs' Choice ib. 908 Campbell 842 The Oyster ib. 909 A British War Song 84: Epitaph on Miss Basnet, in Pancras Church'I'he Lotos of Egypt Maurice 843 yard Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene. M. Thomson 910 G. Lewis 844 On Time Anon. 910 Four Sonnets . , Boules 845 Lines spoken by Mr. Thomas Knox at the au SONGS, BALLADS, &c. nual Visitation at Tunbridge School 845 / Various from 910_939 Epigrams, Epitaphs, and other little Pieces. The Spanish Lady's Love 939 848--893 | The Children in the Wood VARIOUS POEMS, &c. By DIFFERENT | The Hunting in Chevy-Chace AUTHORS. Sir Cauline . 949 Island of Juan Fernandez Couper 893 | Willow, Willow, Willow °. 955 Ode to Peace , - ib. 894 | Barbara Allen's Cruelty 956 Human Frailty . . - ib. 894 The Frolicsome Duke, or Tinker's Good ForOn observing some Names of little Note re tune . corded in the Biographia Britannica .ib 894 Death's Final Conquest . The Nightingale and the Glow-Worin ih. 894| Gilderoy . - 959 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage Bryan and Pereene, a West-Indian Ballad, ib. 895 founded on a real Fact that happened in the The Pine-apple and the Bee ib. 895 Island of St. Cristopher's Grainger 959 The Foet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant ih, 895 Genue River, gentle River Percy 960 Fable ib. 896 | Alcanzor and Zaida, a Moorish Tale ib. 961 The Love of the World detected ib. 896 King Edward IV. and the Tanner of TamThe Jackdaw ib. 896 worth . . . 961 The Country Parson's Blessings 897 Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament On hearing of a Gentleman's Pocket being Corydon's doleful Knell 963 picked 897 | Old and young Courtier The Happy Fireside 897 Loyalty confined 965 Tho Retrospect of Life . 897 To Althex, from Prison 966 An lavitation to the Country 897 | The Braes of Yarrow, in Imitation of the an... Invitation is the feathered Race Graves 898 tient Scotch Manner 966 Address to a Nightingale Thomson 898 Childe Waters ". 967 Retaliation. A Pocm : Goldsmith 898 The King and Miller of Mansfield 969 Lines from Dr. Barnard, Dean of Derry, to The Witches' Song 971 Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Cumberland 900 The Fairies' Farewell 972 On Dr. Goldsinith's Characteristical Cookery. Unfading Beauty 97% A Jeu d'Esprit : Garrick 900| The Hermit Bettie 973 Jupiter and Mercury. A Fable ,' ib900 A Pastoral Ballad, In Four Parts Sluenstone 973 The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the A Pastoral Ballad Buron 975 Loss of Grildrig Guy 901 A Pastoral Ballad Rour 975 A Receipt for stewing Ve ib. 901 A Fairy Tale - - Purnell 976 Spring, "An Ode . Dr. Johnson 901 Song Thison 977 'The Midsummer's Wish. An Ode ih. 902 The Barber's Nuptials Autumn. An Ode. ib. 902 William and Margaret 979 Winter. An Ode ib. 903 Lucy and Colin An Evening Ode. To Stella ib. 903 Songs. By Dihdin The Natural Beauty. To Stella a b. 903 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES, &c. 984 'ELEGANT An Ode ELEGANT EXTRACTS. PO ETI.C A L. BOOK THE FIRST. SACRED AND MORAL. 1. All Address to the Deity. Thomson. And ye five other wand'ring fires that more In mystic dance, not without song, resound LITIER of light and life! Thou soon His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light SUPREME! Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth O teach me what is good. Tcach me THYSELF! lof Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtuel ina ng Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! [pure; Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From hill or streaming lake, dusky or grey, $ 2. Adam and Eve, in a Morning Hymn, call | Till the sun paint your Aeccy skirts with gold, upor all the Parts of the Creation to join with In honor to the world's great Author rise! them in crtolling their common Maker. Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolor'd sky, Milton. Or wet the thirsty carth with falling showers, These are Thy glorious works, Parent of good, Rising or falling'still advance his praise. Almighty, thine this universal fraine, His praise,yeWinds, that from four quarters blow, Thus wondrous fair; thyself howwondrous then! Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, yePines, l'aspeakable, who sitt'st above these Heavens With every plant in sign of worship ware. To us invisible, or dimly seen Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. The goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine. Join voices, all ve living Souls ; ve Birds, Speak ye who bést can tell, yo sons of light, That singing up to Heaven's gate ascend, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs Bear on your wings and in your notes his praisc. And coral syinphonies, day without night, Ye that in waters glide, and he that walk Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven, The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; On Farth, join all ye creatures to extol | Witness if I be silent, morn or even, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. $ 3. On the Deity. Mrs. Barbaulu. And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou I READ God's awful name emblazon'd high, fallist. With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky; Moon, that now mcet'st the orient sun, now fly'st Nor less the mystic characters I see, With the lix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, Wrought in cach Power, inscribd on ev'ry tree; In ev'ry leaf that trembles to the breeze Ten thousand thousand precious gifts Ivy daily ihranks emplov, Nor is the least a cheerful leart, That tistes chose gifts with joy. Thy goodness I'll pursue; Divide thy works no more', Thy mexey strall adore. Then when the last, the closing hour draw's Through all eternity to The nigh, | A joyful song I'll ririse, And carth recedes before my swimming cye; For Oi éternity's too shore When treinbling on the doubtful edge of fate To ulter all thy praise, $5 Hymn on Providence. Addison: Teach me to fix my ardent hopes on high, And, having lived to the, in thee to die. The Lord iny pasture shall prepare, His presence shall iny wants supply, $ 4. llymn on Gratitude. Addison. And guard me with a watchful eye; My noon-day walks he shall atteid, And all my midnight hours defend. When in the sultry ylcbe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountains pant; My weary wand'ring steps he lead; Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, Amid the verdant landskip flow. But thou canst read it there. Tho' in the paths of Death I tread, Thy providence my life sustain'd, With gloomy horrors eversprcail, And all my wants redress'd, Vy stedfast heart shall fear no ill, When in the silent womb I lay, For thon, O Lord, art with me still; And hung upon the breast. Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, To all ny weak complaints and cries And guide me through the dreadful shade. Tliy mercy lent an ear, Tho' in a bare and rugged var, Ere yet iy feeble thoughts had learnt Through devious lonely wilds I stray, 'To forin themselves in pray'r. Thy bounty shall my pains beguile: : Unnumber'd comforts to my soul The barren wilderness shall sinile, Thy tender care bestow'd, ' With sudden greens and herbage crown'd; Before my infant heart conceiv'd And streains shall murmur all around. 186. Another Hymn, from the beginning of the With heedless steps I ran, gth Psalm. Addison. Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe, And led me up to man. The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethercal sky, Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, It gently clear'd inv way, Their great Original proclaima And through the pleasin, snares of vico, | Th' unwearicd sun, from day to day, More to be fear'd than they. Does his Creator's pow'r display, The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, Reviv'd my soul with grace. The moon takes up the wondrous tale, Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss And nightly to the list'ning earth, llas made my cup run o'er, Repeats the story of her birth : And in a kind and faithful friend . Whilst all the siars that round her burn, Has doubled all my store, And all the planets in their turn, Confira |