HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 46*257

THIRD EDITION.

Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by 'News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

The Beasts' Confession

Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Mark Pattison

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.

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33

34

39

55

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou w re my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

A Snow Scene, from 'Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from 'Autumn'

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

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Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Edmund W. Gosse 189

EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765).

Extract from The Last Day, Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

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203

Prof. E. Dowden 206

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214

George Saintsbury 217

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221

RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)
Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)

Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and Fall of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747
Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

248

WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763).

Suffering and Sympathy (from The Schoolmistress)

George Saintsbury 271

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

282

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline