PERSONS AND MATTERS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES. A. Ambrofe Philips, i. 105. iii. 326. Attila, iii. 92. Alaric, iii. 91. Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid's Metamorphofes, Waller. On a Fan of the Author's Defign, in which was painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with the Motto Aura Veni, 14 VII. Dr. Swift. The happy Life of a Country Parfon, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue to the Satires, Horate's Satires, Epifiles, and Odes. Imitated. Book I. Epistle I. To Lord Bolingbroke, Book I. Epittle VI. To Mr. Murray, Epifle I. To Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, 1721, Epiftle II. To James Craggs, Efq. Secretary of State, 1720, Epistle III. To Mr. Jervas, with Mr. Dryden's Tranflation of Fref- noy's Art of Painting, Epifle VII. To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-Day, Epistle VIII. To Mr. Thomas Southern on his Birth-Day, 1742, Mifcellanies Page A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, in 1733, when he was Old, Blind, and in great Distress, a little before his Death, 167 Macer. A Character, Song by a Perfon of Quality, 1733, On a certain Lady at Court, On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars, Gems, ib. 168 169 170 ib. Epitaphs. On receiving from the Rt. Hon. Lady Frances Shirley, a Standish 1. On Charles Earl of Dorfet, in the Church of Withyam in Suffex, 173 II. On Sir William Trumball, one of the principal Secretaries of III. On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, only Son of the Lord Chancellor ib. 173 IV. On James Craggs, Efq. in We@minter-Abbey, ib. V. Intended for Mr. Rowe, in Westminster-Abbey, ib. VI. On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breaft, 174 VII. On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby, and of his fifter ib. ib. XII. Intended for Sir Ifaac Newton. in Westminster-Abbey, XIII. 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