The poetical works of Akenside and Beattie, with a memoir of each ..

Front matter

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Book 1 119 Notes on Book 1 188

The Pleasures of the Imagination. On an enlarged plan.

General Argument 200

Book 1 202

Odes on Several Subjects. In two Books.

Book I. Ode I. Preface 275

II. On the Winter Solstice 277

Ditto. As originally written . . . 281 ni. To a Friend unsuccessful in Love . 283

IV. Affected Indifference 286

V. Against Suspicion 287

VI. Hymn to Cheerfulness ..... 289

VII. On the Use of Poetry 295

VIII. On Leaving Holland 297

IX. To Curio . . 300

X. To the Muse .307

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Odes on Several Subjects, continued.

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Book I. Ode XL On Love, to a Friend 308

XII. To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bari. . 311

XIII. On Lyric Poetry 314

XIV. To the Hon. Charles Townshend . . 319

XV. To the Evening Star ..... 321

XVI. To Caleb Hardinge, M.D. . . . 324

XVII. On a Sermon against Glory .... 326 XVIII. To the Earl of Huntingdon .... 327 Book II. Ode I. The Remonstrance of Shakespeare . 337

II. To Sleep 341

III. To the Cuckoo 343

IV. To the Hon. Charles Townshend . . 345

V. On Love of Praise 352

VI. To William Hall, Esq 353

VII. To the Bishop of Winchester . . . 355 VIII 359

IX. At Study 360

X. To Thomas Edwards, Esq. .... 361

XI. To the Country Gentlemen of England 364

XII. On recovering from a Fit of Sickness 371

XIII. To the Author of Memoirs of the

House of Brandenburgh . . . 374

XIV. The Complaint 376

XV. On Domestic Manners 377

Notes on the Two Books of Odes 379

Notes on the Hymn to the Naiads 394

The Virtuoso 421

Ambition and Content. A Fable 425

The Poet. A Rhapsody 429

Love, an Elegy 445

To Cordelia 450

Song 451

Additional Notes to the Miscellaneous Poems .... 453

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BEATTIE.

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Memoir of Beattie, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce . . vii

The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, Book I. . . 7

The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, Book II. . . 35

Retirement 61

Elegy: written in the year 1758 64

Ode to Hope 67

Ode on Lord Hay’s Birthday 72

The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes, from the Pyg-

mseogerano-machia of Addison 76

The Hares, a Fable 83

Epitaph: being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of

his Lady 92

The Hermit 92

PIECES REJECTED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THE LATER EDITIONS OF HIS TOEMS.

The Judgment of Paris . 97

Ode to Peace . 126

The Triumph of Melancholy 126

The Wolf and Shepherds 341

On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author . . 145

Song, in Imitation of Shakspeare’s 4 Blow, Blow, thou

winter wind’ 153

Epitaph on two young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk, 1757 . 154

Epitaph, intended for himself 155

Verses written by Mr. Blacklock, on a blank leaf of his

Poems, sent to the Author 156

An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Blacklock .... 157

To the Rt. Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes 166 n

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Anacreon, Ode XXII 167

The beginning of the First Book of Lucretius .... 167

Horace, Book II. Ode X 170