A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: With notes. [pt.5]

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A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: With notes. [pt.5]

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London :: printed for J. Dodsley,

1782.

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Contents

• half title
• title page
• poems

  • RURAL ELEGANCE: An ODE to the Duchess of SOMERSET. Written in 1750.
  • INSCRIPTION near a SHEEP-COTE. 1745.
  • NANCY OF THE VALE. A BALLAD.
  • ODE to INDOLENCE, 1750.
  • ODE to HEALTH, 1750.
  • To a LADY of QUALITY, Fitting up her LIBRARY, 1738.
  • UPON A VISIT to the same in Winter, 1748.
  • An irregular ODE after SICKNESS, 1749.
  • ANACREONTIC. 1738.
  • ODE. Written 1739.
  • The DYING KID.
  • LOVE SONGS, written between the Year 1737 and 1743. By the Same.
    • SONG I.
    • SONG II. The LANDSKIP.
    • SONG III.
    • SONG IV. The SKY-LARK.
    • SONG V.
    • SONG VI. THE ATTRIBUTE OF VENUS.
  • THE RAPE OF THE TRAP, A BALLAD; WRIT|TEN AT COLLEGE, 1736. BY THE SAME.
  • A SIMILE. BY THE SAME.
  • THE CEREMONIAL.
  • The BEAU to the VIRTUOSOS; alluding to a Proposal for the Publication of a Sett of BUTTERFLIES.
  • VERSES TO A FRIEND.
  • WRITTEN AT AN INN ON A PARTICULAR OCCASION.
  • THE PRICE OF AN EQUIPAGE.
  • A BALLAD.
  • THE EXTENT OF COOKERY.
  • THE PROGRESS OF ADVICE. A COMMON CASE.
  • SLENDER'S GHOST.
  • Upon RIDDLES.
  • VERSES to a Writer of RIDDLES.
  • To * * * * *.
  • SONG. By the Same.
  • To Lady FANE, on her Grotto at Basilden. 1746
  • The INVISIBLE. By the Same. Written at COLLEGE, 1747.
  • The PEPPER-BOX and SALT-SELLER. A FABLE. To * * * * *, Esq. By the Same.
  • Written near BATH. 1755.
  • VERSES to WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq On receiving a Gilt Pocket-Book. 1751.
  • The SWALLOWS. Written SEPTEMBER, 1748.
    • part - 1
    • PART II. WRITTEN APRIL, 1749.
  • VALENTINE's DAY.
  • THE SCAVENGERS. A TOWN ECLOGUE. IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT.
  • HAMLET's SOLILOQUY, Imitated.
  • TRANSCRIB'D FROM THE REV. MR. PIXEL'S PARSONAGE GARDEN NEAR BIRMINGHAM, 1757.
  • MALVERN SPA, 1757. INSCRIBED TO DR. WALL.
  • SOME REFLECTIONS UPON HEARING THE BELL TOLL FOR THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
  • THE ROBIN: AN ELEGY. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN, 1756.
  • AN EPITAPH.
  • UT PICTURA POESIS.
  • VACUNA.
  • On JOHN WHALLEY RANGING PAMPHLETS.
  • EPITHALAMIUM. JOHN DODD, Esq and Miss ST. LEGER.
  • To MR. DODD, on the BIRTH-DAY of his SON.
  • On Two FRIENDS, Mr. HORACE WALPOLE and Mr. DODD, born on the same Day.
  • A WINTER THOUGHT.
  • SONG.
  • VERSES spoken by the KING'S SCHOLARS at WESTMINSTER, at their Annual Feast, on Queen ELIZABETH'S Birth-day, 1729-30.
  • A LETTER to Sir ROBERT WALPOLE.
  • An EPISTLE from the Elector of BAVARIA to the FRENCH King, after the Battle of RAMILIES.
  • TO THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
  • AN ODE ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY, AT SIX YEARS OLD.
  • A SONG UPON MISS HARRIET HANBURY, ADDRESSED TO THE REV. MR. BIRT.
  • TO MR. GARNIER AND MR. PEARCE OF BATH. A grateful ODE, in return for the extraordinary Kind|ness and Humanity they shewed to me and my eldest Daughter, now Lady ESSEX, 1753.
  • ODE TO DEATH. Translated from the FRENCH of the King of PRUSSIA.
  • The HYMN of DIONYSIUS: Translated from the GREEK.
  • A SATIRE in the Manner of PERSIUS, in a Dialogue between ATTICUS and EUGENIO.
  • To MRS. BINDON at BATH.
  • Mrs. BINDON's ANSWER.
  • SIR CHARLES's REPLY.
  • To a LADY, who sent Compliments to a CLER|GYMAN upon the Ten of Hearts.
  • THE GROTTO. Written by Mr. GREEN of the Custom-House, under the Name of PETER DRAKE, a Fisherman of BRENTFORD. Printed in the Year 1732, but not published.
  • THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW: A FABLE. ADDRESSED TO PHEBE AND KITTY COTTON AT BOARDING SCHOOL.
  • ODE ON A STORM.
  • ISAIAH XXXIV.
  • ISAIAH XXXV.
  • WOODSTOCK PARK. A POEM.
  • A FIT OF THE SPLEEN. In Imitation of SHAKSPEARE.
  • HYMN TO MISS LAURENCE, In the PUMP-ROOM, BATH. 1753.
  • A LETTER TO CORINNA FROM A CAPTAIN IN COUNTRY QUARTERS.
  • A TALE.
  • THE WISH.
  • THE BEARS AND BEES. A FABLE.
  • HYMN TO THE CREATOR.
  • THE CAMELION: A FABLE, AFTER MONSIEUR DE LA MOTTE.
  • IMMORTALITY: OR, THE CONSOLATION OF HUMAN LIFE: A MONODY.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF A GENTLEMAN, Who died on his Travels to ROME. Written in 1738.
  • Captain THOMAS, of BATTEREAU'S Regiment, in the Isle of SKIE, to Captain PRICE, at Fort AUGUSTUS.
  • To Mr. JOHN HOADLY, at the TEMPLE, occasioned by a Translation of an Epistle of HORACE. 1730.
  • To the Rev. Mr. J. STRAIGHT.
  • ANSWER to the foregoing, 1731.
  • poem
  • CUPID AND CHLOE.
  • THE POET TO HIS FALSE MISTRESS.
  • ON MR. * * * *, SCHOOLMASTER AT * * *.
  • KAMBROMYOMAXIA: OR THE MOUSE-TRAP: BEING A TRANSLATION OF MR. HOLDSWORTH's MUSCIPULA, 1737.
  • VERSES UNDER THE PRINTS OF MR. HOGARTH'S RAKE'S PROGRESS. 1735.
    • PLATE I. SCENE, The room of the miserly father:
    • PLATE II. The rake's levee.
    • PLATE III. A brothel.
    • PLATE IV. St. James's-street, where the rake is arrested.
    • PLATE V. Marybone church, where he marries a rich old woman.
    • PLATE VI. A gaming-house.
    • PLATE VII. A prison.
    • PLATE VIII. Bethle'm.
  • ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF TWO YOUNG LADIES. 1730.
  • CHLOE's UNKNOWN LIKENESS. 1738.
  • THE BIRD OF PASSAGE, 1749.
  • VERSES SAID TO BE FIXED ON THE GATE OF THE LOUVRE AT PARIS. 1751.
  • ENGLISH. BY THE SAME.
  • LATIN.
  • CHLOE RESOLVED. A BALLAD. BY THE SAME. SET TO MUSIC BY DR. GREEN. 1743.
  • EPILOGUE To SHAKSPEARE'S first Part of King HENRY IV. Acted by YOUNG GENTLEMEN At Mr. NEWCOMBE'S School at HACKNEY, 1748; Spoken by Mr. J. Y. in the Character of FALSTAFF, Pushed in upon the Stage by Prince HENRY.
  • PROLOGUE TO COMUS, Performed for the Benefit of the General Hospital at BATH, 1756. BY THE SAME. Spoken by Miss MORRISON, in the Character of a Lady of Fashion. She enters with a Number of Tickets in her Hand.
  • EPIGRAMS from MARTIAL.
  • A very gallant COPY of VERSES, (But somewhat silly) Upon the LADIES, and their fine CLOATHS at a BALL,
  • Another on the same Subject, written with more Judge|ment, but fewer Good-manners.
  • The BREWER's COACHMAN.
  • FEMALE CAUTION.
  • GRACE and NATURE.
  • HULL ALE.
  • ABSOLUTION.
  • PENANCE.
  • The MISTAKE.
  • A FRAGMENT of CHAUCER.
  • Upon an ALCOVE, Now at PARSON'S GREEN.
  • THE COUNTRY PARSON.
  • PLAIN TRUTH.
  • ODE TO VENUS, FROM HER VOTARIES OF THE STREET.
  • AN EPIGRAM.
  • THE POET's IMPORTANCE.
  • TO POLLY LAURENCE, QUITTING THE PUNP. BATH, JANUARY 1756.
  • ODE TO A LADY IN LONDON.
  • ODE TO SPRING, BY MISS FERRER OF HUNTINGDON, SINCE MARRIED TO THE REV. MR. PECKARD.
  • ODE TO CYNTHIA. IN IMITATION OF AN IDYLLIUM OF BION.
  • ODE TO A THRUSH.
  • ELEGY.
  • A POEM TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS, LATE MARQUIS OF WHARTON, LORD PRIVY SEAL.
  • PARAPHRASE upon a FRENCH SONG.
  • THE TOMB of SHAKSPEARE. A VISION.
• INDEX TO THE FIFTH VOLUME.