*** If such a fight as this can please ye, The goddess, who conceiv'd an hope, O DE ON SCIENCE. OH, heavenly-born! in deepest dells If faireft science ever dwells Beneath the mossy cave; Indulge the verdure of the woods : With azure beauty gild the foods, And flowery carpets lave., With fcientific light; Though wrapt from mortal fight. I Till Wisdom give the sacred Nine, L'ntaught, not uninspir’d, to laine, By Reason's power redress'd. Where When Solon and Lycurgus taught, Of mad opinion's maze, That blends congenial rays. year ; Without thy aid, in vain the poles, In vain the zodiac system rolls, In vain the lunar sphere. Come, faire ft princess of the throng, Bring sweet Philofophy along In metaphysic dreams; While raptur'd bards no more behold A vernal age of purer gold In Heliconian streams. By Folly led astray : Thy univerfal fway. Behold the madding throng, C ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ s. THE FIRST VOL U M E. 21 Ode to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page 1 to the Athenian Society, 1691. 9 Lines written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699. 20 Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition., Ballad on the Game of Traffic. 26 Another Ballad, occasioned by the preceding one. 28 The Discovery. 29 The Problem, that my Lord Berkcley stinks when he is in Love. Description of a Salamander, 1706. 33 To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the British Forces in Spain. On the Union. 37 On Mrs. Biddy Floyd. Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, afterwards Countess of Winchelsea. 39 Vanbrugh's House, built from the Ruins of *** Whitehall. 43 The History of Vanbrugh's Houses 46 Baucis and Philemon, 1708. yaol. Elegy ، از 148 Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge the On the little House by the Church-yard of Castle. The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod. 65 Atlas ; or, the Minister of State. An excellent new Song ; being the intended Speech of a famous Orator against Peace. Corinna. ibid. Calves-head Club. Peace and Dunkirk; an excellent new Song. 82 Horace, Book I. Ep. VII. 1913. On a Curate's Complaint of Hard Duty, A true and faithful Inventory of the Goods belong- ing to Dr. Swift, Vicar of Laracor ; upon his So Cadenus and Vanella. Page 10 131 132 133 154 ibid. Book I. Ep. V. John Dennis the Shel- 140 146 150 late Lord Treasurer. Sent to him when in the 152 153 158 159 Dublin ; whose Sign was the Golden Fleece. 164 166 ibid. 4 163 165 167 |