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SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.

CONTENTS.

THIRD PERIOD—FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.

INDEX

SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.

SONG.

JOHN POMFRET,

THE CHOICE.

THE EARL OF DORSET.

SONG.

JOHN PHILIPS.

THE SPLENDID SHILLING.

SIR SAMUEL GARTH.

THE DISPENSARY.

SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE.

VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF SIR R. BLACKMORE, CONTAINING A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS.

CREATION.

ELIJAH FENTON.

AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD GOWER.

ROBERT CRAWFORD.

THOMAS TICKELL.

TO THE EARL OF WARWICK, ON THE DEATH OF MR ADDISON.

JAMES HAMMOND.

ELEGY XIII.

RICHARD SAVAGE.

THE BASTARD.

THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER.

VERSES WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WINDSOR CASTLE.

AN AMERICAN LOVE ODE.

JONATHAN SWIFT.

BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.

ON POETRY.

ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT.

A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION-CLUB. 1736.

ISAAC WATTS.

FEW HAPPY MATCHES.

THE SLUGGARD.

THE ROSE.

A CRADLE HYMN.

BREATHING TOWARD THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY.

TO THE REV. MR JOHN HOWE.

AMBROSE PHILIPS.

A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO.

WILLIAM HAMILTON.

THE BRAES OF YARROW.

ALLAN RAMSAY.

LOCHABER NO MORE.

THE LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MOOR.

FROM 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.'

ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE.

IMITATION OF THOMSON.

IMITATION OF POPE.

IMITATION OF SWIFT.

WILLIAM OLDYS.

SONG, OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKING OUT OF A CUP OF ALE.

ROBERT LLOYD.

THE MISERIES OF A POET'S LIFE.

HENRY CAREY.

SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.

DAVID MALLETT.

WILLIAM AND MARGARET.

THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.

JAMES MERRICK.

THE CHAMELEON.

DR JAMES GRAINGER.

ODE TO SOLITUDE.

MICHAEL BRUCE.

TO THE CUCKOO.

ELEGY, WRITTEN IN SPRING.

CHRISTOPHER SMART.

SONG TO DAVID.

THOMAS CHATTERTON.

BRISTOWE TRAGEDY.

MINSTREL'S SONG.

LORD LYTTELTON.

FROM THE 'MONODY.'

JOHN CUNNINGHAM.

MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN.

ROBERT FERGUSSON.

THE FARMER'S INGLE.

DR WALTER HARTE.

EDWARD LOVIBOND.

THE TEARS OF OLD MAY-DAY.

FRANCIS FAWKES.

THE BROWN JUG.

JOHN LANGHORNE.

FROM 'THE COUNTRY JUSTICE.'

GIPSIES.

A CASE WHERE MERCY SHOULD HAVE MITIGATED JUSTICE.

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE.

THE LAWYER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE.

JOHN SCOTT.

ODE ON HEARING THE DRUM.

THE TEMPESTUOUS EVENING.

ALEXANDER ROSS.

WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'.

THE ROCK AN' THE WEE PICKLE TOW.

RICHARD GLOVER.

FROM BOOK XII

ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD.

VARIETY.

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE.

CUMNOR HALL.

THE MARINER'S WIFE.

LORD NUGENT.

ODE TO MANKIND.

JOHN LOGAN.

THE LOVERS.

THOMAS BLACKLOCK.

THE AUTHOR'S PICTURE.

ODE TO AURORA, ON MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY.

MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN.

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

A PERSIAN SONG OF HAFIZ.

SAMUEL BISHOP.

TO MRS BISHOP,

TO THE SAME,

SUSANNA BLAMIRE.

THE NABOB.

WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE?

JAMES MACPHERSON.

OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.

DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA.

FINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA.

ADDRESS TO THE MOON.

FINGAL'S SPIRIT-HOME.

THE CAVE.

WILLIAM MASON.

EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL.

AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S WORKS, ETC.

JOHN LOWE.

MARY'S DREAM.

JOSEPH WARTON.

ODE TO FANCY.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SONG.

VERSES,

THE OLD BACHELOR.

CARELESS CONTENT.

A PASTORAL.

ODE TO A TOBACCO-PIPE.

AWAY! LET NOUGHT TO LOVE DISPLEASING.

RICHARD BENTLEY'S SOLE POETICAL COMPOSITION.

LINES ADDRESSED TO POPE.[1]

THE END.

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