A reafonable affliction. By the fame. From the

. 188

Occafioned by verses fent to the author in his retire-

ment. By mrs. Elizabeth Higgons. Written in

the year 1690. By Geo. Granville, lord Lanf-

downe. From his "Works," 1736

Baucis and Philemon. Imitated from the eighth

book of Ovid. Written, 1706. By Jonathan

Swift, D. D. dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

From bis " Mifcellanies," 1711, 1727

Verfes on the death of Doctor Swift. Occafioned
by reading 'a' maxim in Rochfoucault. Written
by himself: Nov. 1731. From the edition of

1739

193

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A letter from Italy, To the right honourable Charles

lord Halifax. In the year MDCCI. By Joseph

Addifon, efq. From his "Works," 1753

To bis perjur'd mistress. From Horace. By Thomas

Yalden, D. D. From Drydens Mifcellany

poems," 1727

To a candle. Elegy. By William Congreve, efq.

From his "Works," 1715

223

Horace, Book II. Ode IV. Imitated. The lord

Griffin to the earl of Scarfdale. By Nicholas

Rowe, efq. poet laureat. From bis "Works,”

The Indian philofopher. By Ifaac Watts, D. D.

From his “ Horæ Lyricæ," 1758

Paftoral. By Ambrofe Philips. From his “ Paf-

torals," &c. 1765

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To the earl of Dorfet. By the fame. From the fame

authority

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To fignora Cuzzoni. By the fame. From the fame

authority

The fplendid fbilling. An imitation of Milton.

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By John Philips. From the edition of 1719

To a painter. By John Hughes, efq. From his

"Poems," 1735

The peach fone. By George Jeffreys, efq. From

bis "Mifcellanies," 1754

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230

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240

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244

250

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The hermit. By Thomas Parnell, D. D. arch-

deacon of Clogher. From his " Poems," 1711 253

A fairy tale. In the ancient English file. By the

fame. From the fame authority

Ronald and Dorna. By a highlander, to his mis-

trefs. From a literal translation of the original.

By Aaron Hill, efq. From his "Works," 1753 271

The messenger. By the fame. From the fame au-

thority

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To the right honourable the earl of Warwick.

[On the death of mr. Addifon.] By Thomas

Tickell, efq. From Addisons "Works," 1753 275

The fatal curiofity. By the fame. From Drydens

"Mifcellaneous poems," 1727

Retirement. An ode. By Thomas Warton the elder.

From bis "Poems," 1745

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An invocation to a water-nymph. By the fame.

From the fame authority

An American love-ode.

281

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Taken from the second

volume of Montagne's Ejays. By the fame.

From the fame authority

284

"Damon. A paftoral.' By Alexander Pope, efq. From

bis "Works," 1751 (the notes being omitted) 285

To mrs. M. B. on her birth-day. By the fame.

Epifle to the fame. On her leaving the town after

the coronation [1715]. By the fame. From

the Jame authority

Elegy. To the memory of an unfortunate young

- 291

lady. By the fame. From the fame authority 293

The first fatire of the fecond book of Horace imi-

tated. By the fame. From the fame authority

(the imitations and notes being omitted)

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297

A prologue to a play for mr. Dennis's benefit, in

1733, when he was old, blind, and in great

diftrefs, a little before his death. By the fame.

From the fame authority (the notes being omitted) 304

Epitaphs. By the fame. From the fame authority 304
Fables. By John Gay, efq. From his " Fables,"
(vol. 1.) 1733, and (vol. 2.) 1738

Paftorals. By the fame. From his "Shepherds

Week," 1714

307

The birth of the fquire. An eclogue. In imitation
of the Pollio of Virgil. By the fame. From
bis "Poems," 1737

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On the fetting-up mr. Butler's monument in Weft-
minfter-abbey. By Samuel Wesley. From his
"Poems," 1736

Epigram, from the Greek. By the fame. From

the fame authority

318

331

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336

The Baftard. Infcribed, with all due reverence,

to mrs. Brett, once countess of Macclesfield. By

Richard Savage. From his "Works," 1775 339

Epitaph on a young lady. By the fame. From the

Upon the bishop of Rochester's banishment, in 1723.

By Philip, duke of Wharton. From "The True

Briton," 1732

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On the death of a young gentleman. By Chriftopher

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348

Pitt. From his " Poems," 1779
Sonnet. By Thomas Edwards. From the "Ca-

nons of criticism," 1758

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