An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients

by John Ogilvie

ON THE

LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS;

In TWO LETTERS inscribed to

The Right Honourable JAMES Lord Deskfoord.[A]

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By JOHN OGILVIE, A.M.

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LONDON:
Printed for G. Keith, at the Bible-and-Crown in Gracechurch-Street.

M. DCC. LXII.

Although the facsimile includes this full Table of Contents, only the introductory section—the Essay on Lyric Poetry— was reprinted.

[CONTENTS.]
An ESSAY on the Lyric Poetry of theANCIENTS.
Letter I.	Page [iii]
Letter II.	[xxxix]
ODES, &c.
To Melancholy	1
To the Genius of Shakespear	8
To Time	16
To Sleep	23
To Evening	29
To Innocence	36
The Day of JUDGMENT. APoem.
Book I.	49
Book II.	79
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
The 148th Psalmparaphrased	107
Verses to a Lady, with Voltaire’s Temple ofTaste	112
A Town Eclogue	116
Jupiter and the Clown. A Fable	120
An Elegy on the Death of a Linnet	128
An Evening Piece	131
To Miss —— with a Flower	134
Sappho’s Ode to Venus translated	136
To the Memory of Mrs. ——	138
To the Memory of Mr. H*** M***. An Elegy	143
To the Memory of the late pious, and ingenious Mr. Hervey	147
The Third Chapter of Habakkukparaphrased	152

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