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1810,

CONTENTS.

VOL. VII.

POEMS OF COWLEY.

Page

Page

CHE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

3 Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry

65

Elegia Dedicatoria ad Illustrissimam Aca-

II, That a pleasant Poverty is to be pre-
demiam Cantabrigiensem

41

ferred before Discontented Riches... ib.
be Author's Preface to his Edition in Folio,

III. To his Mistress

ib,

1656

42 IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A

the Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition

Translation

66

of 1674

48 V. In Commendation of the Time we live

bedication

ib.

under, the Reign of our gracious

The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems.. 49

King Charles

ib.

o the Reader.........

ib. VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life

ib,

An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... ib.

onstantia and Philetus......

51

be Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56

MISCELLANIES.

SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON The Motto

67

SUNDRY OCCASIONS.

Ode. Of Wit.....

ib.

e felici partu, Reginæ Mariæ

59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from

1 felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem 60 the Northern Expedition against the Scots.. 69

pon the happie Birth of the Duke

ib. On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton........ ib.

a Elegy on the Death of the Right Honour- On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master

able Dudley, Lord Carleton, Viscount Dor-

at Westminster School

ib.

chester, late Principal Secretary of State... ib. On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland...... 69

a Elezy on the Death of my loving Friend On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyck, the

and Cousin, Mr. Richard Clarke, Gent, late

famous Painter

üb.

of Lincoln's Inn

61 Prometheus ill-painted

770

Dream of Elysium
ib. Ode.

ib.
a his Majesty's Return out of Scotland 62 | Friendship in Absence

ib.

mg, on the same

ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge-

Vote.....

ib. ment out of the Tower

ib.

Poetical Revenge

63 | To a Lady who made Posies for Rings..........

o the Dachess of Buckingham

ib. Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince ib.

his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue

A. B.

ib. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey

a Elegy on the Death of Job Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. 75

Son aod Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who la Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L. V. Ep.

was drowned leaping into the Water to save

ib.

bis younger Brother

64 The Chronicle. A Ballad

ib.

Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir- To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two First

min, written in Latin by the Right Worship- Books of Gondibert, finished before his

fal Dr. A.

ib. 1 Voyage to America......

71

ib.

72

XX.

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