Though the Book is divided into Four Parts, yet the formality of regular and
systematical arrangement of the component pieces, has not been strictly ob.
served. Such compilations as these have not unfrequently been called garlands
and nosegays : but in a garland or nosegay, who would place the tulips, the li.
lies, the pinks, and the roses in separate compartments ? In a disposition so arti.
ficial, their beauty and fragrance would be less pleasing than if they were care.
lessly mingled with all the case 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 cir.
cumstances 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, and have
« brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them.”

In this Edition, as in the numerous preceding ones, greal Improvements
have been made. The favourable Reception of the Book has indeed encouraged
the Editor to render it, in every new Impression, still more acceptable. But
several Poems are now added for the first time, and some Poematia, which were
never printed before. The Collection was originally formed for the use of
TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL; and a few School Exercises of Tunbridge Scholars have
been very sparingly inserted, with a Vier to encourage ingenuous Youth, who,
in that ancient Place of classical Education, devote themselves to Studies of use.
ful and polite Literature.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. SACRED AND MORAL.

ib. 54

ib. 54

ih. 55

56

56

56

ib.

Italis 57

ib. 59

ib. 59

.

ib. 59

ib.

ib. 10

62

Page

Page

N Address to the Deity . Thomson Hymns

Mis. Burbauld 52

An Address to the Deity

upon all the Parts of the Creation to join with A Summer Evening's Meditation

them nettclling their common Maker Milton 1 Hymn to Content

Os the Deity

Mrs. Babuld 1 To Wisdom

ib.

Hyos sa Gratitude

Addison 2 | Despondency. An Ole

Burns

Hyən en Provideace
ib. 2 The Frailty and Foily of Man

Priar

Hymn, from the beginning of the agth Psalm ib. 24 Paraphrase on the latter Part of the Sixth

Another Hyma

Mrs. Rowe 3 Chapter of St. Matthew

Thomson 57

Hymn

3 Songs of Praise

Hmo, from Psalm 148th

Ogilvie 3 The Excellency of the Bible demonstrated
Philo ub-Plain 5th

Merrick 4 The Ah.secing God

Plalméb-Plain Sih

ib. 5 Solemn Thoughts concerning God and Death ib. 59

Plain 99:-P!alm 122d

ib. 5 Heaven and Hell

Hyms to Cheerfulceis-The author being fick The Advantages of early Religion

59

Dr. Akenfide 6 The Danger of Delay

ib. 60

The 8th Plains trandated . Cbrifopber Pite 7 Examples of early Piety

ib. 60

Pla's the aqib paraphrated

ib. 7 Against Lying

ib. 60

P12.5 29th

ib.

8 Against Quarrelling and Fighting

ib. 60

Plain 6th paraphrased

ib.

8 Love between Brothers and Sisters

ib. 61

Plalm goth paraphrased

ib.

9 Againit Scoffing and calling Names

ib. 61

Pfalm 1440 paraphrased

i5. 9 Against Swearing and Curling, and taking God's

The goChapter of Job

Name in vain

ib. 66

The 25th Chapter of Joh paraphrased ib, 11 Against Idleness and Mischief

ib. 61

The Seag of Molca in asth Chapter of Exodus Against Evil Company

ib. 61

parobealed
ib. 11 Againft Pride in Clothes

ib.

The 13 gth Pfaim paraphrased

ib. 12 | Obedience to Parents

ib. 68

As Hyas ta the Supreme Being. An Imitation The Child's Complaint

ib.

of the 19474 Plam

Black lock 13 A Morning and Evening Song

ib. 62

Two Hymes

Anon. 15 For the Lord's Day Morning

ib. 62

a Hyna ea the Seasons

Thomson 15 For the Lord's Day Evening

ib. 63

Hypa tə Humanity

Langborne 16 The Sluggard---Innocent Play

The Enlargement of the Mind : Epistle 1.10 Ce The Role--The Thief

Deral Craufurd. Epätie 11. To William The Ant, or Emmet

Langborne, M.A.

ib. 17 Good Resolutions

The l'ajversal Prayer

Pope 201 A Summer Evening

ib. 64

Muthah, a Sacred Eclogue

ib. 21 A Cradle Hymn

ib. 64

The Prize of Virtue

ib. 21 The Nunc Dimitis

Merrick 65

Aa Elegy, written in a Country Church-Yard The Benedicite paraphrased

Gray 22 The Ignorance of Man

ib. 66

Dearb

Porteus 23 The Trials of Virtue

Toe Care

Blair 25 Christ's Paffion : from a Greck Ode of Mr.

Haspinels to be found in Virtue alone

Mafters, formerly of New College Pirt 67

Ocibe E'ernity at the Supreme Being

62

ib. 63

ib. 63

ib. 63

ib. 64

ib. 65

ib. 67

Pope 3 31

Page

83

1

91

9+

96

1

ment

1

1

102

I

121

1 2

Painel 78 YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS.

The Golden Verres of Pythagoras Fitzger.uld 80 Night I. Sleep-Night

On Cheerfulner's

ib. 80

Invocation to Silence and Darkness

On Industry-A Thought

Death ib. 81

upon

Time

The Fire Side

Cotton 81

Man-Dreams

Vanity of Lamentation over the Dead

VISIONS for the Entertainment and Loftrudion of

Life and Eternity
Younger Mods, by D. COTTON.

Time and Death
Address

82

Oppretlion, Want, and Diseafe
Vision 1. Slander. Inscribed to Mifa

ReHections on viewing a Map of the

II. Pleasure

8+

World-Sympathy

III. Healih

86

The Instability and insufficiency of Hu-

IV. Content

88

man Joys

V. Happiness

90

Man Thorilighted

VI. Friend thip

Presumption of depending on To-morrow 1

VII. Marriage. Infcribed to Miss **

Sudden Death

VIII. Life

Man's Proneness co poftpone Improve-

IX. Death

97

Man insensible of his own Mortality

FABLES, by the late Mr, GAY.

Night 11. Avarice of Time recommended

The Shepherd and the Pbilosopher

Inconfiitency of Man

The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveller

Waste of Time
The Spaniei and the Cameleon

103

Falle Delicacy-Confcience

The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy

103

Man's Supineness

The Eagle and the Allembiy of Animals 103

The Depravity of Man

The Wild Boar aud the Ram

104

Instability of Life

The Mifer and Plutus

104

Vanity of Human Enjoyinents, caught

The Lion, the Fox, and the Geefe

105

by Experience

The Lady and the Wasp

105

Death unavoidable

The Bull and the Mafii

105

Lile compared to the Sun-dial

The Elephant and the Bookseller

106

Death of the good Man

The Peacock, the Turkey, and the Goose 106 Night 111. Picture of Narcissa, Description of her

Cupid, Ilymen, and Plulus

107

Fupera, and a Reflection upon Man 129

The Tame Stag

107 Night IV Death not to be dreaded

The Monkey who had seen the World

107

Death desirable to the Aged

134

The Philosopher and the Pheasants

108

Folly of Human Pursuits

131

The Pin and the Needle

Folly of the Love of Life in the Aged 131

The Shepherd's Dog and the wolf

109

The Pait.ter who pleafed sobody and every body 109 Feals of Death

extinguished by Man's

The Lion and the Cub

Redemption

131

The Old Hen and the Cock

Greatness of the Redemption

132

The Rat-Catcher and Cats

Praite,bestowed on Men,due to Heaven 133

The Coat without a Beard

M»,nificence and Omaiprescence of the

The Old Woman and her Cats

Deity

The Butterfly and the Snail

Inability of fufficiently praising God 133

The Scold and the Parrot

Man-Religion.

134

The Cur and the Mastiff

God's Love to Man

13+

The Sick Van and the Angel

Lukewarm Devotion

134

The Perlian, the Sun, and The Cloud

113

Death, where is thy Sting?

134

The Fox at the Point of Death

Faith enforced by our Reafon 135

The Setting Dog and the Partridge

False Philosophy

135

The Universal Apparition

The mere Man of the World

135

The Two Owls and the Sparrow

114 Night V. Darkness

135

The Courtier and ProteusThe Mastiffs

115

The Futility of Man's Resolutions

136

The Barley Mow and the Dunghill

The Power of Example--Midnight

136

Pythagoras and the Countryman

Little to be expected trom Man

The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Wisdom

The Turkey and the Ant

117

Reflections in a Church-yard

The Father and Jupiter

117

Little Attention paid to the Warnings

The Monkeys

117

of Death

137

The Owl and Farmer

Life compared to a Stream

The Jugglers

Suicide

The Council of Horses

119

Tears

138

The Hound and ihe Hunisman

119

Inattention to the Voice of Death

The Poet and the Role

120

Little Learning required, to be Good 139

The Cur, the Horts, and shepherd'. Dog

The Caprice and universal Power of

The Court of Death

Death

139

The Gardener and the Hog

121. NighiVI. The Death of Narcissa

140

The Mosi and tie F.ca

Reflections on Man and Immortality

us Hare ad maig trocado

Genius conaccied with Ignoming

Exalica

108

131

110

110

1:0

133

113

114

114

Page

142

160

16.

abi

166

168

169

.

171

Page 1

YVI Izalzed Station

141 Night IX. Nature the Foe of Scepticism

157

True Greatnefs

142

Reasons for Belief

168

The Torment of Ambition

142

The Power of God infinite

158

True Riches

142

The World fufficient for Man. Contem-

The Vanity of Wealth

plation of the Heavens

158

ianortality

143

Man's Science the Culture of his Heart 169

Mas ignorant of his real Greatiefs

143

The Greatness of God inexpressible 159

Dibelief of a Future Sune

143

The Misery of Sin---Reason

159

Man's Immortality proved by Nature 143

Mao-Death

160

XVII D..cuent

Reflections on Sleep

Rezisa and loftinct

Address to the Trinity

144
Hasan Hope

Conclusion

144
Tae Madrefs of Infidelity

145 Solitude --The Day of Judgment Young 26,
Acbride of Fame-Avarice

146
Addrefs to Uabelievers

146

FABLES for the FEMALE SEX, by Mr. MOORE.

The Pathons

147 The Eagle and the Assembly of Birds

163

Proofs of Immortality. Man's Happi. The Panther, the Horse, and other Beasts 16+

els confits in the Hope of it 147 | The Nightingale and Glow-worm

165

Mlery of Uabelief

147 Hymen and Death

165

The Acuihilation of Man, incompatible The Poet and his Patron

166

with the Goodness of God

149 The Wolf, the Sheep, and the Lamb

The Guilry alone with for Annihilation 149 The Goose and the Swans

167

No spritual Subftance annihilated 149 The Lawyer and Justice

The World a System of Theology 149 The Farmer, the Spaniel and the Cat

Vintse the fruit of Immortality 149) The Spider and the Bee

170

Free Thinking

149 The Young Lion and the Ape

170

Rational and Animal life

150 | The Colt and the Farmer

The Gospel

150 The Owl and the Nightingale

172

The Myktery of a Future State, no The Sparrow and the Dove

172

Argument against ic

150 | The Female Seducers

175

Hope

150 Love and Vanity

180

XVIII World'y Purfuits

151 The Young Laiy and Looking-Glass Wilkie 183

Hans Life compared to the Ocean 151 | The Boy and the Rainbow

ib. 183

The Love of Distinction

151 | The Rake and the Hermit

ib. 184

Pledure

151 | The Youth and the Philofopher Wbirebead 185

Rife of Pleasure

152 The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow Cotion 185

The End of Pleasure

152 The Bears and the Bees

Merrick 187

Vstue and Piety

152 The Cameleon

ib. 187

Reforces of a Dejected Mind 152 The Monkies, a Tale

ib. 187

A Man of Pleasure is a Man of Pain 152 | Know Thyse.f

Arbuthnot 188

Eartly Happiness

153 Lesions of Wisdom

Armstrong 189

Jez-Follies of Imagination

153/ The Pain arising from virtuous Emotions artended

Pearse confifts in Goodness

153

with Pleafure

Akenfide 189

Picture of a Good Man

154 Paraphrafe on Psalm.Ixxiv.16,17 Miss Williams 190

The Fall of the Good Man

154 Paraphrafc on Isaiah, xlix. 15

Wit and Wisdom

154 Paraphrafe on Matt. vi. 12

ib. 191

Fatte Gaiety ends in Despair

155 Reflections on a Future Stalc, from a Review of

gd: II Refe&iops on Death

155

Winter

Tbumfor 192

The World a Grave

On Slavery

Mifs H. Falcunar 192

The triumphs of Death

155 A Prayer on the Prospect of Death

Burns 193

Deing and Conflagration

155 The Gencalogy of Christ, as it is represented on
The Lust Day

the East Window of Winchelter College Cha.
Thoughtlefinefs of the Last Day
156 pel. Written at Winton School

Lowob 191

Eternity and Time

1;6 On the Death of Frederic Prince of Wales. Writ-

The unreasonableness of complaint

ten at Paris,by David Lord Viscount Stormont,

Grief-and Joy-Night

157

of Christ Church, Oxon

196

Pega'arity of the Heaveuly Bodies Death

Mracks

157

On the Immortality of the Soul

S. Jenyas 199

BUCK II. DIDACTIC, DESCRIPTIVE, NARRATIVE, AND PATHETIC.

Pa, e

Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society. Winter, a Pastoral

Pope 218

lakribed to the Reverend Mr. H. Gold. Windsor- Forest

faith

Dr. Gullfmith 207 Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus is.

210 Ode on Solitu.

kdoro e Angelisa. A Ballad ib. 214 The Dyigma,

ib.

296, Paltoral

Pope 215 An Ed

ib.

banner

, a Pafto: al

ib. 216 Tb

ib. 229

Autuma, Paftoral

2,6

ib. 19%

135

155

157

157

Emily 197

Page

ib. 219

Tae Deierted Village

ib. 223

223

223

ib. 217

Page

ib. 237

.

ib.

ib. 289

ib. 345

ib. 4

ib. 4

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato Pope 237 Ode. The Suicide

T. Warton

Epdogue to Rowe's Jane Shore

ib. 237 Oje. Sent to a Friend on his leaving a favourite

The Temple of Fame

Village in Hampshire

ib.

The Happy Life of a Country Parson ib. 242 The art of Preserving Health ..

Armeftrong

An Efray on Man: in Four Epiftles ib. 242 Ode on the Spring

Gray

Moral Efrays : in Four Epifties

ib. 253 Ode on the Death of a favourite cai drowned in

Epiftle to Mr. Addison, occafioned by his Dia- a Tub of Gold Filhes

ib.

logues on Medals

ib. 263 Odeon a distant Prospect of Eton College ib.

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to Ode to Adversity

ib.

the Satires

ib. 263 The Progress of Poely. A Pindaric Ode ib.

Satires and Epifles of Horace imitated ib. 267 The Bard. A Pindaric (de

ib.
Epilogue to the Satires. In two Dialogues ib. 278 The Fatal Sisters. An Ode

ib.

Imitations of Horace

ib. 282 The Descent of Odin. An Ode

A Panegyric to my lord Protector, of the preferit

The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment ib.

Greatnefs, and joint Interest, of his Highness Ode on the Installation of the Duke of Grafton.

and this Nation

Waller 285

Irregular

ib.

Cooper's Hill

Denham 286 A Prayer for Indifference

Greville

On Mr. Abraham Cowley's Death, and Burial The Fairy's Answer to Mrs. Greville's Prayer for,

amongit the ancient Poets

Indifference

Countess of C-

An Essay on Translated Verse Earl of Roscommon 290 The Beggar's Petition

Anon. 4

Abfalomi and Achitophel

Dryden 294 Pollio. An Elegiac Ode; written in the Wood

Palamon and Arcite; or, the Knight's Tale ib. giz near R.Castle, 1762

Mickle 4
Religo Laici
ib. 832 The Tears of Scotland

Smoitet

Mac Flecknoe

ib. 335 Ode to Mirth

ib.

An Essay upon Satire Dryden and scking bam 334 Ode to Leven Water-

ib.

Cymon and Iphigenia

Dryden 339 Songe to Ælla, Lorde of the Cartei of Brystowe

Theodore and Honoria

ynne Daies of Yore. From Cbatterton, under

The Rofciad

Churcbill 348 the name of Rowley

The Pleasures of Imagination Aken fide 357 Bristowe Tragedie; or, The Dethe of Syr Charles

Day : a Paftoral

Cunningham 362 Bawdin. Cbalterron, under the name of Rowley 4

The Contemplatift: a Night Piece ib. 363) The Mynstrelles Songe in Ælla, a Tragycal

The Vifions of Fancy

Langhorne 364 Enterlude

A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Chorus in Goddwyn, a Tragedie

a

Charles Lord Halifax.In the Year 1901. Addison 366 Grongar Hill

Dyer 4

The Campaign

'ib. 368 Monody on the Death of his Lady

An Allegory on Man

George Lord Littleton 4:

The Book Worm

ib. 372 | A Winter Piece

Aulmitation of some French Verses

ib. 373 The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenfer

Ad Amicos

Sbenfone 49

Hymn to Contentment

Parnell 375 | Oriental Eclogues

An Address : Winter

Cowper 375 The Splendid Shilling

9. Phillips 45

Liberty renders England preferable to other Na. An Epiftle to a Lady

Nugent sa
tions, notwithstanding Taxes, &c. ib. 376 Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Mufic. An

Defeription of a Poet

ib. 376

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day

Love Elegies

376 An Epiftle from Mr. Phillips to the Earl of Dor.

An Essay on Poetry
Buckingham 378 set. Copenhagen, March 9, 1709

59

The Chace

Somerville 381 The Alan of Sorrow

Greville

50

Rural Sports ; a Georgic

Gay 399 Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady Shaw sa

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion Young 402 An Evening Address to a Nightingale ib. 50
The Castle of Indolence. An Allegorical Poem An Ode to Narcissa

Thomson 423 Elegy in Imitation of Tibullus

To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton ib. 437 The Propagation of the Gospel in Greenland

Hymn on Solitude

ib.

Cowper 50

Hymn to darkness

Yalden 439 On Slavery and the Slave Trade

ib. 50

Education

Weft 439 On Liberty, and in Praise of Mr. Howard ib. 601

A Birth-Day Thoughe

447 On Domestic Happiness,as the Friend of Virtue,

Moral Reflection. Written on the first Day of and of the falle Good-nature of the Age

the Year 1782

448 |On the Employments of what is called an idle

The Triumph of Isis, occasioned by Isis, an Elegy Life

7. Warion 448 The Poft comes in the News-paper is read---
Inscription in a Hermitage, at Anlly-llall in the World contemplated at a Dittance
Warwickihiro

ib. 450 | A Fragment
Monody, written near Stratford upon Avon ib. 450 Ode to Evening

.y). Warton 5!
On the Death of King George the Second ib. 450 Gs. Ao hlegy
On the Marriae. no cha King, 1961, to her Epistolary Verses to George Colman, Efg, writ-
Majer

ton in the Year 1756

452 Ode to Arthur Ontlow, Erg.

613

458 Ode to Melancholy

Ogilvi 514

Ode to the Cenius of Shakipsare

Parnell 372

Anon. 45

.

R. Wef 374

Collins 44

Dryden so

Smollet 50

438

ib. 501

i its 509