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Preface

(OF THE ORIGINAL COMPILER)

Since Poetry affords young persons an innocent pleasure, a taste for it, under certain limitations, should be indulged. Why should they be forbidden to expatiate, in imagination, over the flowery fields of Arcadia, in Elysium, in the Isles of the Blessed, and in the Vale of Tempe ? The harmless delight which they derive from Poetry, is surely sufficient to recommend an attention to it, at an age when pleasure is the chief pursuit, even if the sweets of it were not blended with utility.

If indeed pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry, there are some who, in the rigour of austere wisdom, would maintain that the precious days of youth might be more advantageously employed than in cultivating a taste for it. To obviate their objections, it is necessary to remind them, that Poetry has ever claimed the power of conveying instruction, in the most effectual manner, by the vehicle of pleasure.

There is reason to believe that many young persons of natural genius would have given very little attention to learning of any kind, if they had been introduced to it by books appealing only to their reason and judgment, and not to their fancy. Through the pleasant paths of Poetry they have been gradually led to the heights of science : they have been allured, on first setting out, by the beauty of the scene presented to them, into a delightful land, flowing with milk and honey; where, after having been nourished like the infant at the mother's breast, they have gradually acquired strength enough to relish and digest the solidest food of philosophy.

This opinion seems to be confirmed by actual experience; for the greatest men, in every liberal and honourable profession, gave their early years to the charms of Poetry. Many of the most illustrious worthies in the church and in the state were allured to the land of learning by the song of the Muse ; and they would perhaps have never entered it, if their preceptors had forbidden them to lend an ear. Of so much consequence is the study of Poetry in youth to the general advancement of learning.

And as to morals, " Poetry," in the words of Sir Philip Sydney, " doth not only show the way, but " giveth so sweet a prospect of the way, as will entice any man to enter into it ; nay, the Poet doth, " as if your journey should be through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a cluster of grapes, " that, full of that taste, you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, •* but he cometh,to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared. " for, the well-enchanting skill of music; — and with a tale; — he cometh unto you with a tale, " which holdeth children from play , and old men from the chimney corner. Even those hard-hearted, " evil men, who think virtue a school-name, and despise the austere admonitions of the philosopher, " and feel not the inward reasons they stand upon, yet will be contented to be delighted; which is " all the good fellow Poet seems to promise ; and so steal to see the form of goodness ; which seen; '* they cannot but love, ere themselves be aware, as if they took a medicine of cherries."

Thus Poetry, by the gentle, yet certain method of allurement, leads both to learning and to virtue. I conclude, therefore, that under a few self-evident restrictions, it is properly addressed to all young; minds, in the course of a liberal education.

It must be confessed, at the same time, that many sensible men in the world, as well as in the schools of philosophy, have objected to an early study of it. They have thought that a taste for i£ interfered with an attention to what they call the main chance. What Poet ever fined for sheriff! says Oldham. It is seldom seen that any one discovers mines of gold and silver in Parnassus, says Mr. Locke. Such ideas have predominated in the exchange and in the warehouse ; and, while they continue to be confined to those places, may perhaps, in some instances, be proper and advantageous. But they ought not to operate on the mind of the well-educated gentleman, or the man of a liberal profession ; and indeed there is no good reason to be given why the mercantile classes, at least of the higher order, should not amuse their leisure with any pleasures of polite literature. Nothing perhaps contributes more to liberalize their minds, and prevent that narrowness whjqh is too often the consequence of. a life attached, from the earliest age, to the pursuits of lucre.

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That mere men of the world object to the study of Poetry as a part of education, is not to be wondered at, when it is considered that many, from want of natural sensibility, or from long habits of inattention to every thing but sordid interest and vulgar enjoyment, are totally unfurnished with faculties for the perception of poetical beauty. But shall we deny that the cowslip and violet possess a vivid colour and sweet fragrance, because the ox who fattens in the meadow tramples over them without perceiving either their hues or their odours ? The taste of mankind, from China to Peru, powerfully militates against the few and narrow-minded despisers of poetry.

Young minds, indeed, have commonly a taste for Verse. Unseduced by the love of money, and unhackneyed in the ways of vice, they are, it is true, pleased with simple nature and real fact, though unembelhshed ; because all objects with them have the grace of novelty : but they are transported with the charms of Poetry, where the sunshine of fancy diffuses over every subject the fine gloss, the rich colouring, of beautiful imagery and language. " Nature" (to cite Sir Philip Sydney again) " never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant " rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatsoever may make the earth more lovely. The ** world is a brazen world — the poets only deliver a golden; which whoever dislike, the fault is in fi their judgment, quite out of taste, and not in the sweet food of sweetly-uttered knowledge.

It will be readily acknowledged, that ideas and precepts of all kinds, whether of morality or science, make a deeper impression when recommended by the vivacity, the colouring, the melody of poetical language. And what is thus deeply impressed will also long remain ; for metre and rhyme naturally catch hold of the memory, as the tendrils of the vine cling round the branches of the elm.

Orpheus and Linus are recorded, in fable, to have drawn the minds of savage men to knowledge and to have polished human nature by Poetry. And are not children in the state of nature ? And is it not probable that Poetry may be the best instrument to operate on them, as it was found to be on nations in the savage state ? Since, according to the mythological wisdom of the ancients, Amphion moved stones, and Orpheus brutes, by music and verse, is it not reasonable to believe, that minds which are dull, and even brutally insensible, may be penetrated, sharpened, softened, and vivified, by the warm influence of fine Poetry ?

But it is really superfluous to expatiate either on the delight or the utility of Poetry. The subject has been exhausted ; and, whatever a few men of little taste and feeling, or of minds entirely sordid and secular, may object, such are the charms of the Goddess, such her powerful influence over the heart of man, that she will never want voluntary votaries at her shrine. The Author of Nature has kindly implanted in man a love of Poetry, to solace him under the labours and sorrows of life. A great part of the Scriptures is poetry and verse. The wise son of Sirach enumerates, among the most honourable of mankind, such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in

WRITING.

With respect to this Compilation, the principal subject of this Preface (but from which I have been seduced into a digression, by giving my suffrage in favour of the art I love) — if I should be asked what are its pretensions, I must freely answer that it professes nothing more than (what is evident at first sight) to be a larger Collection of English Verse, for the use of schools, than has ever yet been published in one volume. The original intention was to comprise in it a great number and variety of such pieces as were already in use in schools, or which seemed proper for the use of them ; such a number and variety as might furnish something satisfactory to every taste, and serve as a little Poetical Library for school-boys, precluding the inconvenience and expense of a multitude of volumes.

Such was the design of the Publication. The Editor can claim no praise beyond that of the design. The praise of ingenuity is all due to the Poets, whose works have supplied the materials. What merit can there be in directing a famous and popular passage to be inserted from Shakspeare, Milton, Pope, Gray, and many others of less fame, indeed, but in great esteem, and all of allowed genius ? Their own lustre pointed them out, like stars of the first magnitude in the heavens. There was no occasion for singular acuteness of vision, or for optical glasses, to discover a brightness which obtruded itself on the eye. The best pieces are usually the most popular. They are loudly recommended by the voice of Fame; and her eulogy, when long-continued, becomes an infallible guidance.

Utility and innocent entertainment are the sole designs of the Editor ; and if they are accomplished, he is satisfied, and cheerfully falls back into the shade of obscurity. He is confident that the Book cannot but be useful and entertaining ; but he is at the same time so little inclined to boast of his work, that he is ready to confess, that almost any man willing to incur a considerable expense, and undergo a little trouble, might have furnished as good a collection.

As taste will for ever differ, some may wish to have seen in it passages from some favourite, yet obscure poet, and some also from their own works ; but it was the business of the Editor of a schoolbooh like this, not toinsert scarce and curious works, such as please virtuoso readers, chiefly from their rarity, but to collect such as w ere publicly known and universally celebrated. The more known, the more celebrated, the better they were adapted to this Collection ; which is not designed, like the lessons of some dancing-masters, for grown gentlemen, but for young learners only ; and it will readily occur to every one, that what is old to men and women* may be* and for the most part must be, new

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to boys and girls receiving their education. Private judgment, in a work like this, must often give way to public. Some things are inserted in this Volume, entirely in submissive deference to public opinion ; which, when general and long-continued, is the best criterion of merit in the fine arts, and particularly in Poetry. Whatever was found in previous collections, which experience had pronounced proper for schools, has been freely taken and admitted : the stamp of experience gave it currency. The freedom of borrowing, it is hoped, will be pardoned, as the collectors, with whom it has been used, first set the example of it.

It is unnecessary, and perhaps might be deemed impertinent, to point out the mode of using the Collection to the best advantage. It is evident that it may be used in schools either in recitation, transcription, the exercise of the memory, or in imitation. It furnishes an abundance of models, which are the best means of exciting genius. Such Arts of Poetry as those of Gildon, Bysshe, Newbery, and their imitators, effect but little in the dry method of technical precept ; and the young Poet, like the Sculptor, will improve most by working after a model. It is evident that this Collection may be usefully read at English Schools, in the classes, just as the Latin and Greek authors are read at the grammar-schools , by explaining every thing grammatically, historically, metrically, and critically, and then giving a portion to be learned by memory. The Book, it is hoped, will be particularly agreeable and useful in the private studies of the amiable young student, whose first love is the love of the Muse, and who courts her in his summer's walk, and in the solitude of his winter retreat, or at the social and domestic fire-side.

In the latter part many little pieces are admitted, mere lusus poetici, chiefly for the diversion of the student, which almost require an apology. They are, it must be confessed, no more than flowerets at the bottom of Parnassus ; but it is hoped, that their admission will be approved, as they may gradually lead the scholar to ascend higher up the hill, who might have been deterred from approaching it, if he had seen nothing, in the whole prospect, but the sublime, the solemn, and the sombrous.

The Reader will have no cause to complain, if, instead of Extracts, he often finds poems inserted entire. This has been done whenever it seemed consistent with the design, and could be done without injustice. In this matter, the opinion of those who must be supposed best qualified to give it, was asked and followed. The wish was to take nothing but what seemed to lie on the common, relinquished or neglected by the lord of the manor.

Though the Book is divided into Four Parts, yet the formality of regular and systematical arrangement of the component pieces has not been observed. Such compilations as these have not unfrequently been called Garlands and Nosegays ; but in a garland or nosegay, who would place the tulips, the lilies, the pinks, and the roses, in separate compartments ? In a disposition so artificial, their beauty and fragrance would be less pleasing than if they were carelessly mingled with all the ease and wildness of natural variety. I hope the analogy will hold : if not, I must throw myself in this, as I do in all other circumstances of this Publication, upon my Reader's indulgence. I expect not praise ; but I confide in receiving pardon.

Perhaps the Reader will be the more inclined to extend it towards me, if I do not weary him with apologies. I will then conclude my Preface with the ideas of Montaigne :—" I have here only made " a nosegay of culled flowers, andhave brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them."

ADVERTISEMENT.

Although this Edition, together with the last Editions of the Collections entitled "Elegant Extracts in Prose," and "Elegant Epistles," has been reduced, for the purpose of giving it a more compendious form, yet the respective Volumes of this " Set of Extracts." will he found still to contain more copious and valuable articles than any other Publication of a similar nature.

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BOOK I.-SACRED AND MORAL, Page

An Address to the Deity Thomson

Adam and Eve, in a Morning Hymu, call upon all the parts of the Creation to join with them in extolling their common Maker .. .. Milton

Hymn on Gratitude Addison

Hymn on Providence ' ib.

Hymn, from the beginning of the 19th Psalm ib.

Hymn .. .. Mrs. Rome

Hymn .. ib.

Hymn, from Psalm 148th Ggilme

Psalms 4th, 5th, and fith Merrirk

Psalms 8th, 23d, and 122d ib.

Hymn to the Supreme Bein^'. An imitation of the

104th Psalm Blacklock

Hymn to the Seasons Thomson

The Universal Prayer Pope

Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue ib.

The Prize of Virtue ■ ib.

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard . . Gray

Heath .. .. .. Porteiis

The Grave Blair

Happiness to be found in Virtue alone . . Pope

On the Eternity of the Supreme Being . . Smart

— his Immensity ib.

— his Omniscience ib,

— his Power ib.

— his Goodness ib'.

Ode to Wisdom Miss Carter

J^city • • ■ Boyse

The Day of Judgment, a Sentorian prize-poem

Dr. Ghjn?i An Address to the Deity . . . . Mrs. Barbuuld A Summer's Evening's Meditation .. .. ib.

Despondency, an Ode Burns

The Frailty and Folly of Man p r i or

A Paraphrase on the latter part of the sixth Chapter of St. Matthew .. .. .. Thomson

The Sluggard .. Watts

The Rose ib.

The Ant, or Emmet ib.

A Summer Evening ib]

The Nunc Dimittis Merrick

The Benedicite paraphrased; .. ,. ib.

The Ignorance of Man , ib

The Trials of Virtue a]

A Funeral Hymn Mallet

Ode to Melancholy Miss Carter

Written at Midnight, in a Thunder-storm . . ib.

The Vanity of human Wishes . . . . Johnson Elegy on the Death of Lady Coventry, written

in 1760 Mason

The Choice of Hercules, from the Greek of

tv. „ Pro( ?i cus Lowth

1 he Hermit , t>nrnp]>

-' The Fire-Side ...,...." Cottol

VISIONS, by Dr. COTTON,

For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds.

Address

Vision. , , I, Slander, inscribed to Miss *****

56 57 {

Vision ..II. Pleasure .. . . . »

.. V. Happiness

■' VII. Marriage, inscribed to Mis3

VIII. Life .. ....

IX. Death

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. 59 60

FABLES, by the late Mr. GAY.

The Miser and Plntus

The Lady and the Wasp

The Elephant and the Bookseller

Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus

The Monkey who had seen the World

The Painter who pleased nobody and everybody

The Old Hen and the Cock

The Butterfly and the Snail

The Cur and the Mastiff

The sick Man and the Angel

The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud

The Fox at the point of death

The universal Apparition

The Courtier and Proteus

The Mastiff

The Barley-mow, and tl e Dunghill Pythagoras and the Countryman The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

The two Monkeys

The Council of Horses

The Poet and the Rose

The Court of Death .. .. -..

The Hare and many Friends

NIGHT THOUGHTS, by Dr. YOUNG.

Sleep

Time

Man

■ Vanity of lamenting over the Dead

— Life and Eternity

■ Time and Death

The Instability and Insufficiency of human

Joys . . . .

— Sudden Death . .

■ Instability of Life

Vanity of human Enjoyments taught by experience

. Death unavoidable

Death of the good Man

Night III. Picture of Narcissa, Description of her Funeral, and a Reflection upon Man Night IV. Fears of Death extinguished by Man's Redemption

. Greatness of the Redemption . .

Magnificence and Omnipresence of the

Deity ..

Man — Religion ..

The ruere Man of the World

V. Darkness Midnight . .

Heflections in a Churchyard Suicide ■' .. ••

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81 82 82

82 82 82

84 85

86 86 86 86 87 87 87 88

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Night VI. The Death of Narcissa 88

Immortality . . . . . . 89

Man's Immortality proved by nature . . 8$

VII. Misery of Unbelief . . . . . . 90

VIII. Human Life compared to the Ocean . . 91 Pleasure . . . . . . . . " 92

Resources of a dejected Mind ., .. 92

Picture of a good man . . . . . . 92

Wit and Wisdom . . . . . . 93

IX. Reflections on Death . . . . . . 93

The World a Grave .. ... .. 93

The Triumphs of Death 93

Deluge and Conflagration 94

The Last Day . . . . . . . . 94

Thoughtlessness of the Last Day .. .. 94

Eternity and Time 95

The Unreasonableness of Complaint . . 95

The Greatness of God inexpressible .. 95

Reflections on Sleep .. .. .. 95

Address to the Trinity . . . „ . . 96

Conclusion .. ,, .. 97

The Day of Judgment . . • • . . 97

FABLES, by EDWARD MOORE.

The Panther, the Horse, and other Beasts . . , . 99

The Nightingale and Glow-worm .. .. .. 100

The Poet and his Patron . . . . 1 00

The Lawyer and Justice .. ., ,, .. 101

The young Lion and the Ape . . .. .. 102

The Sparrow and the Dove 102

The Female Seducers . . . . . . 1C6

Love and Vanity .. .. .. .. .. 110

The young Lady and Looking-Glass .. .. Wilkie 113.

The Boy and the Rainbow . . .. .. ib. 113

The Rake and the Hermit .. .. .. ib. 114

The Youth and the Philosopher .. Whitehead 115

The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow . • .. Cotton 116

The Bears and the Bees Merrick 117

The Cameleon .. .. .. ib. 117

Know thyself Arbuthnot 118

Lessons of Wisdom . . . . Armstrong 119

Hymn to Cheerfulness, the Author being sick

Dr. Akenside 119 The Pain arising from virtuous Emotions attended

with Pleasure .. .. .. ib. 121

Reflections on a future State, from a review of Winter .. .. ,. Thomson 122

A Prayer on the prospect of Death . . Burns 122

Death •• Emily 122

BOOK 11.

DIDACTIC, DESCRIPTIVE, NARRATIVE AND PATHETIC.

The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, inscribed to

the Rev. Mr. H. Goldsmith . Dr. Goldsmith 125

The Deserted Village, .. .. ib. 129

Edwin and Angelina. A Ballad . . ib. 132

Spring, a Pastoral . . . . . . p p e 134

Summer, a Pastoral ib. 135

Autumn, a Pastoral .. .. ,. ib. 136

Winter, a Pastoral .. ., .. ib, 135

Windsor Forest ,. .. ,, .. ib. 137

Ode to Solitude .. ., .. ib. 14\

The Dying Christian to his Soul .. ,. ib. 141

An Essay on Criticism ib. 141

The Rape of the Lock . . . . .. ib. 148

Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady . . ib. 155

The Temple of Fame . . . . . . ib. 153

The happy Life of a Country Parson . . . . ib. 160

An Essay on Man, in four Epistles . . .. ib.

1st Epistle, Nature and State of Man with

respect to the Universe . . . . . . 160

2d — with respect to himself .. ., ., ]63

3d — with respect to Society .. ., # . jqq

4th — with respect to Happiness ., .'. 169 Moral Essays in four Epistles . . , , ib.

1st— to Sir Richard Temple , , , , . , ' 172

3d— to Allen Lord Bathurst , r . , , » 177

4th-*-to Richard Boyle ., ,,, ,, \w

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Epistle to Mr. Addison, occasioned by his Dialogues

on Medals Pope 182

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue to the Imitation of the Satires and Epistles of Horace .. .. .. .. i6. 183

The Satires and Epistles addressed

To Mr. Fortescue, Sat. 1st 186

— Lord Bolingbroke, Ep. 1st, Bk. 1st . . 189

— Mr. Murray, Ep. 6th 191

— Augustus, Ep. 1st, Bk. 2d 192

Epilogue to the Satires, &c. in two Dialogues .. ib. 198 Imitations of Horace „ . .. .. ib.

Epistle 7th, in the manner of Dr. Swift . . 202

Satire 6th .. .. .. Dr. Swift 202

Part of the 9th Ode of the 4th book, (a fragment)

Cooper's Hill Denham 205

Religio Laici .. .. .. Dry den 208

Mac^Flecknoe .. .. .. ib. 212

Cymon and Iphigenia . • .. .. ib. 214

Theodore and Honoria . . . . . . ib. 219

The Rosciad Churchill 223

Tli e Pleasures of the Imagination .. .. Akenside 232

Day, a Pastoral . . . . Cunningham 237

The Contemplatist, a night-piece .< ib. 238

The Visions of Fancy j . . .. . . Lang home 240

A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable

Charles Lord Halifax, in the year 1701 Addison 242

The Campaign Addison 243

An Allegory on Man , Purnell 247

The Book- Worm ib. 248

Ad Amicos R. West 249

An Address to Winter Cowper 250

Liberty renders England preferable to other Nations,

notwithstanding Taxes ib. 250

Description of a Poet ib. 251

An Essay on Poetry Buckingham 251

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion .. .. Young 254

Satire I. To the Duke of Dorset 254

II. To the Earl of Scarborough .. ..256

III. To Mr. Dodington 259

IV. To Sir Spencer Compton .. .. 261 V. On Women 264

VI. The same *■ 268

VII. To Sir Robert. Walpole .. ..274

The Castle of Indolence, an Allegorical Poem. Thomson 276 The Triumph of Isis, occasioned by Isis, an Elegy

T. Wart on 291 Inscription in a Hermitage at Ansby Hall, in Warwickshire .. ib. 293

Monody, written near Stratford-upon-Avon . , ib. 293

Ode to Sleep . . . . . . . . ib. 293

The Hamlet, written in Which wood Forest ., ib. 293

Ode. The First of April .. .. ib. 294

Ode. The Suicide .. .. '.. ib. 295

Ode. Sent to a Friend on his leaving a favourite Village

in Hampshire .. .. .. ib. 296

The Art of preserving Health . . Armstrong 296

1st Book, Air .. 296

4th The Passions .. ..309

Ode on the Spring .. .. Gray 313

Ode on the Death of a favorite Cat, drowned in a Tub

of Gold Fishes .. .. .. ib. 314

Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College . . ib. 314

Ode to Adversity . . . . . . ib. 315

The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode .. ib. 315

The Bard, a Pindaric Ode ib. 316

The Fatal Sisters, an Ode ib. 318

The Descent of Odin, an Ode ib. 318

The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment .. .. ib. 319 Ode on the Installation of the Duke of Grafton. Irregular ib. 320

A Prayer for Indifference Greville 320

The Fairy's Answer to Mr. Greville's Prayer for Indifference . . . . . . Countess of C— 321

The Beggar's Petition Anon. 322

Pollio, an Elegiac Ode, written in the Wood near

R. Castle, 1762 Mickle 322

The Tears of Scotland .. .. .. Smollet 323

Ode to Mirth .. .. ib. 324

Ode to Leven-Water . . ib. 324

Songe to ./Ella, Lorde of the Castel of Brystowe ynne Daiei of Yore, Under the name of Rowley

Chati<nt<m 325

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Bristowe Tragedie, or the Detbe of Syr Charles Bawdin.

Under the name of Rowley ,. Chatterton 325 TheMynstrellesSonge in JElla, aTragycal Enterlude.

Under the name of Rowley . . . . ib. 328

Chorus in Goddwyn, a Tragedie .. .. ib. 329

Grongar Hill Dyer 329

Monody on the Death of his Lady.

Lord George Littleton 331

A Winter Piece . . Anon. 333

The School-Mistress, in imitation of Spenser. Shenstone 334

Oriental Eclogues .. .. .. Collins 337

1st. Selim, or the Shepherd's Moral . . 337

. 2d. Hassan, or the Cauiel-Driver . . . . 338

3d. Abra, or the Georgian Sultana .. .. 339

■ 4th. Agib and Secander . . . . . . 339

The Splendid Shilling J. Philips. 340

Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music. An Ode on

St. Cecilia's Day . . . . . . Dry den 841

The Man of Sorrow .. ... .. Greville 343

Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady .. Shaw 343

An Evening Address to the Nightingale . . ib. 346

The Propagation of the Gospel in Greenland Cowper 346

On Slavery and the Slave Trade . . . . ib. 347

On Liberty, and in praise of Mr. Howard .. .. ib. 347

On Domestic Happiness as the friend of Virtue, and of

the false good Nature of the Age .. .. ib. 34S

On the Employments of what is called an idle Life ib. 348 The Post comes in — The Newspaper is read — The

World contemplated at a Distance .. ib. 349

A Fragment Mallet 350

Ode to Evening Dr. Jos. Wart on 350

Isis, an Elegy ., .. .. .. Mason 351

Epistolary Verses to George Colman, Esq. written in

in the Year 1756 . . . . • • Lloyd 352

Ode to the Genius of Shakspeare .. Ogilvie 353 Ode to Time, occasioned by seeing the Ruins of an old

Castle ib. 354

A Description of a Parish Poor-House , . Crabbe 356

Description of a Country Apothecary ., .. ib. 356 Description of a Country Clergyman visiting the

Sick ib. 356

The Reason for describing the Vices of the Village ib. 356

Apology for Vagrants .. .. .. Anon. 357

Ephstle toa young Gentleman on his leaving Eton School

Dr. Roberts 357

London, a Poem .. . . .. Johnson 357

Great Cities, and London in particular, allowed their

due Praise Cowper 360

The want of Discipline in the English Universities ib. 361 Happy the Freedom of the Man whom Grace makes

free— His relish of the Works of ^God— Address

to the Creator ib. 361

That Philosophy which stops at secondary Causes reproved .. .. .. .. ih. 363

Rural Sounds, as well as Sights, delightful .. ib. 363 The Wearisoineness of what is commonly called a Life