The success that has attended his endeavours must remain with an impartial public to decide ; but he can with truth affirin, that his great aim has been to join the useful with the agreeable, to excite in the bofom of his readers a sympathy for their fpecies, and to invite them to the practice of VIRTUE. Under this conviction of the purity of his own motives, he ventures to deprecate the cenfure of those who may think the means he has taken inadequate to the end proposed; mankind having long since conceded, that to have meant well is at leali to merit fuccess, although a deficiency of talent, or an erroneous judgment, may disable us from obtaining it; and this appears to have been the opinion of the celebrated ADDISON when in his fine play of CATo he makes PORTIUS fay: “ 'I is not in mortais to command success, “ But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.” As to typographical execution, it cannot suffer by a comparison with any publications of the present day, being printed on an entire new type, caft expressly for the purpose by that ingenious artist MR. CASLON; and its price must certainly be allowed to render it the cheapest collection of the kind. l'pon the whole, therefore, he indulges the hope, that it will be found an inftructive and entertaining POCKET COMPANION, equally acceptable to the traveller, and the social circle assembled round the friendly fire-fide; and also, that it may not be thought an unwelcome recreation to juvenile minds, in as much, as while it unbends them from more severe fiudies, it will form their style, and give them a correct idea of those beauties which so eminently adorn our ENGLISH POETS. The Editor. AUTHORS FROM WHOM THIS WORK IS COMFILED. 192 A DDISON, 156 Johnson, Sam, 155, 167, 169 Jonson, Ben, 131, 142, 186 6, 95, 102, 108, 115, 128, 131, Lloyd, 47, 55 Lyttleton, Lord, un Mallet, 150 Mason, 146, 159, 183 Melmoth, 185 Merrick, 203 Mickle, 162 Milton, 116, 120, 207 - Moore, Parnell, 97 Phædrus, 69 Pindar, Peter, uz Pope, 41, 109 Pratt, 187 Robertson, 60 Rogers, 195, 199, 203 Scott, 182 Shakspeare, 15, 18, 28, 102, 158 Shenstone, 86, 88, 90, 91 Smart, 63, 75, 76 Thompson, William, 2, 42, 96 Thomson, James, 71, 78, 81, 82,93, 9), 140 Welt, Richard, 19 Wilde, 180 Wotton, Sir Henry, 175 CONTENTS. vms A BSENCE, a Pastoral .................. Shenfione .... Miltor ......... 207 Gray.......... Dryden ........ Samuel Johnson .. Goldsmith ........ Biter Bit, an Epigram ............. Braes of Yarrow, an Elegy ............ Logan ........... 165 Bulwarks of Society, an Ode ... Campbell, Miss, an Epitaph on ..., Care and Generosity, an Allegory Conjugal Felicity, a Description. Country-Apothecary a Description ...... Crabbe ......... 138 Country-Box, a Tale, .......... Country-Bumpkin and Razor-feller, a Tale ... Peter Pindar .... 112 Country-Church-Yard, an Elegy in ..... Country-Clergyman, a Description ...., Goldsmith .... Course of Nature described ...... Despairing Lover, an Elegy .... Disappointment, a Pastoral ...... Eaton-College, Ode on a difant Prospect of .. Gray.. Edwin aud Angelina, a Tale ...... Eliza, a pathetic Tale ....... Darwin .... ICS, ... ...... .... .. .. .. .. ... R. Wat ......... Evening, an Ode .... Samuel Johnson ... 167 Fairies Farewell, an humorous Old Ballad.... Dr. Corbet ...... 160 Faithful Slave, an Epitaph to the Memory of, Anonymous ...... 95 Father's Advice to his Son.................. Shakspeare ....... 158 Fear, an Ode .... Collins .......... 129 Feathered Race, an Invocation to ... Folly of Riches, an Ode ..... Anonymous ...... Sanuel Johnson .. Smart .......... 73 Miss Carter ..... 181 Anonymous ...... 145 W. Thompson .... 42 Happy Life, a Moral Reflection Harmony, an Ode .. .... Dryden ......... 132 Parnell ......... 97 Mallett ......... 150 Beattie ......... 103 Pratt .......... 187 Shensione ... Smart ..... Smollett ..... Shakspeare ... Ogilvie . Thomson ...... 8L Lovers' Night, a Pastoral ....... Margaret Ratcliffe, an Acroftical Epitaph .... Ben Jonson ..... 131 Miser and Plutus, a Fable .... Moral Thought, a Sonnet ...... Morning, a Paftoral ........... Negro Slaves, an Inscription at the Entrance Anonymous ...... 43 Anonymous ...... Cunningham ..... 5. Thomson ...... 76 Collins .......... 125 Phædrus ........ 203 Pollio, an Elegiac Ode ........ ... Mickle .. 162 Moore ... Merrick. 203 Carrick II2 Langhorne 201 Aikin .. 176 Roger's .. Mafon ..... Rogers ... 195 Collins .. 152 Wilde ......... Shakspeare ..... Collins .. 109 Cowper .. ... 189 Shenstone .. .. 90 Grainger .... Anonymous ... Shakfpeare ...... 3. Thomson ...... Ben. Fonfon ..... 186 .. Robertfon .... .. Rogers .......... 199 Dryden ... Anacreon... ... Melmoth.. Anonymous Majon.. 146 Carew JOG Goldsmith -Cunningham 124 Anonymous Anonymous...... 7. Thomson .. 149 Anonymous • 128 Aikin .. 143 Gerrald........ |