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POEMS OF P. WHITEHEAD.

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The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers....... 199 Cupid bamled

227
The State Dunces: a Satire. Inscribed to Death and the Doctor.....

ib.

.............. 207 | An occasional Prologue, spoken by Mr. Powell,

Manners : a Satire, 1738

210 at the Opening of the Theatre Royal in Co-

The Gymnasiad, or boxing Match : a very vent Garden, on Monday, September 14,
short, but very curious epic Poem, with the

1767.......

ib.

Prolegomena of Scriblerus Tertius and Notes Verses on converting the Chapel to a Kitchen,

213 at the Seat of the Lord Donnerayle, called

the Grove, in Hertfordshire

216 Verses on the Duke of Cumberland's Victory

II.
217 at Culloden, in the Year 1746

ib.

Honour: a Satire, 1747

218 Verses inscribed on a Monument, called the

An Epistle to Doctor Thomson, 1755

221 Tomb of Care, in the Garden of the late

An occasional Song, as performed by Mr. John Rich, Esq. at Cowley in Middlesex;

Beard, in the Character of a recruiting Ser- whereon three beautiful Boys ars covering
jeant, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Gar. a funeral Urn with a Veil of Flowers 229

den, in the Entertainment of The Fair ...... 225 The Epitaph (in Letters of Brass, inserted by
Sonz, sung by Mr. Beard, in the Entertain- a female Figure representing History) on a
ment of Apollo and Daphne

ib. marble Pyramid of the Monument of John,

Song, sung by Mr. Beard at the annual Meet-

ing of the Vice-Presidents, Governors, &c. Verses on the Name, P. Whitehead, sub-

of the London Hospital

ib. scribed to the above lascription, being re-

Fragment.-When Bacchus, jolly god, invites, 226 moved thence some time after the Monu-
Verses occasioned by Lady Pomfret's Present ment was erected

of some antique Statues to Oxford; the Verses to Mr. Brooke, on the Refusal of a
Streets whereof were foolishly said to be Licence to his Play of Gustavus Vasa... ... ib.

paved with Jacobites

ib. Song.–As Granville's soft numbers tune My-

ib. ra's just praise

The Butterfy and Bee. To Flavia

ib. To Dr. Schomberg, of Bath

Verses dropt in Mr. Garrick's Temple of Epitaph, by Mr. Garrick, on Paul Whitehead,

ib.

POEMS OF FAWKES.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers.......... 233 | To Miss Herring. With four Odes on the

Brambam Park. To Robert Lane, Esq. 235

A Description of Calypso and her Grotto 238 A vernal Ode, sent to his Grace the Lord Arch-

An Epithalamic Ode. Intended for Music ... 239 bishop of Canterbury. March 12, 1754 ... ib.

The Death of the Lark. 1738 ...

ib. Ode to Summer. By a Gentleman of Cam-

The Sparrow. From Catullus, 1738

On the Death of a young Gentleman, Sep- An autumnal Ode. To Mr. Hayman, the
tember, 1739 ....
ib. Painter. October, 1754

244
An Epistle to a friend in Yorkshire

ib. Ode on Winter. By a Gentleman of Cam-
On a Lady's singing and playing upon the bridge

ib.

241 An Ode to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of

On the Death of the right hon. the Earl of Canterbury

ib. Aurelius : an Elegy. Sacred to the Memory

To the right hon, the Countess of Uxbridge, of Thomas Herring, D. D. late Lord Arch-

occasioned by the Death of the Earl, her bishop of Canterbury

ib. On the Death of his most sacred Majesty King

ib. George the Second

Song to Laora, absent. January, 1745 242 To his most sacred Majesty, on his Accession. ib.

Nosegay for Laura. Joly, 1745

ib. A Parody on a Passage in Milton's Paradise

To Laura, absent. November, 1745

ib. Lost. Book iv.....

To his grace Dr. Thomas Herring, Lord Arch- David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan.

bishop of Canterbury, on his Sickness and Samuel, Book ii. Chapter i.

Recovery. June 25, 1753

ib. The Picture of Old-Age, paraphrased from

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EPITAPHS.

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the seven first Verses of the twelfth Chap- A good Name

256

ter of Ecclesiastes

A good Wife. From Proverbs, Chapter xxxi. ib. Man blind to future Events

ib,
Nathan's Parable, 2 Samuel, Chap. xii. 248 Friendship

ib.

The Song of Deborah ...

ib. Tyrants unhappy

The Poor should not be oppressed... ... ib.
Riches

ib.

On a very good Woman...

249 Rich and Poor equally unhappy

On a young Gentleman, who died A. D. 1743, Fortune blind

ætat, 13. In a Church in Cheshire

ib. Evil Company contagious

On a worthy Friend who was accomplished in Impudence

the Sister-Arts of Music and Painting ib. Importunate Advice

On the rev. Mr. Cookson, Vicar of Leeds ib. The Dangers of Matrimony

On Mrs. Fountayne, Daughter of Thomas The Comforts of Matrimony

Whichcot, Esq. and Wife to the Dean of The Rich and Young should marry

York; who died in Child-bed, July, 1750, Maternal Affection

ib. Nurse Myrtila................

On a young Gentleman, who died for love, Power of Music

ib. The strictly righteous Field

Ou James Fox, Esq. 1754

ib. Love omnipotent

To a young Lady, with a Present of Books,

Partridges, and Snuff.

An Elegy on the Death of Dobbin, the Butter-

Ignis Fatuus. Will with a Wisp

258
Woman's Horse

Datur Mundorum Pluralitas. By Christopher

Epithalamium on the Marriage of a Cobler

and a Chimney-Sweeper....

A Voyage to the Planets, translated.. ....... ib.

The smoking Doctor's Soliloquy over his Pipe. ib.

Materies gaudet Vi Inertiæ. By Christopher

Woman : a Ballad. Being a Contrast to

Smart, M. A. .......

“ The women all tell me I'm false to my

The Teinple of Dullness, translated

ib.
lass."

Mutua Oscitationum Propagatio solvi potest

251

The Brown Jug: a Song. Iritated from the

mechanice. By Christopher Smart, M. A. 263

Latin of Hieronymus Ainaltheus

Mechan cal Solution of the Propagation of

A Pair of Spectacles. From Bourne

The Stage Coach. Proin the same

To William Dixon, Esq.

Thank you for Nothing

The Preface to the Description of May

Ap Eulogy on Sr Isaac Newton. Translated

Some Account of Gawin Douglas.

from the Latin of Dr. Halley....

Gawin Douglas his singular lernit Prolong of

Claudian's old Man, who never went out of

the Description of May

the Suburbs of Verona

A Description of May, from Gawin Douglas,

Archimedes's Sphere. From Claudian.. ib.

Bishop of Dunkeld. Modernized

On Menander. Imitated from a Greek Epi-

Gawin Douglas his eloquent Description of

gram in the Anthologia

Wynter, wyth bys grete Stormes and Tem-

A Description of Winter, from Gawin Douglas,

FRAGMENTS OF MENANDER. TRANSLATED FROM THE

Bishop of Dunkeld

Glossary to May and Winter

Some Account of Menander

ib. Part of Sat. vi. Book ii. of Horace, translated.

Worship due to the Deity

254 Beginning at, Perditur hæc inter misero lux,

Submission
ib. non sine votis, Scc.

975
The acceptable Sacrifice

ib. A Parody on the city and country Mouse ib.
The Miseries of old Age.

ib. Horace, Epist. v. Book i. imitated. To John

Virtue only is Nobility

255 Hawkesworth, Esq.

276

The Omnipotence of Gold
ib. A Passage from Petronius, translated

ib.
The Misery and Folly of Man

ib. Against Life. From the Greek of Posidippus, ib.

Man unhappy, compared with other Creatures. ib. For Life. From the Greek of Metrodorus ib.

The Origin of Man

ib. On Occasion of the Peace.

277

The Pleasures of Solitude

ib. On a country Vicar carrying his Wife behind
Sorrow familiar to all Men

ib. him, to visit his Parishioners. By Mr.

Good and Evil blended

256 of Brazen Nose College

278

Content

ib. / The Vicar's Reply. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. 279

Banish Care.

ib. To Dr. Redman, who sent the Author a Hare,

Temple of Reason

ib. and promised to sup with him. . By the

The Man of Reason....

ib. Rev. Dr. Cowper .....

ib.

Good Sense

ib. ) Imitated by Mr. Fawkes...

ib.

POEMS OF LOVIBOND.

ib.

ib.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 283 To Lady P—, on her Marriage ..... 298
On the Death of Edward Lovibond, Esq. By Song.–No gaudy Rubens ever dare

ib.

285 Verses written after passing through Findon,

ib. Sussex, 1768. Addressed to the rev. Mr.

The World. Number LXXXII

Woodeson, of Kingston upon Thames 299

The Tears of old May-day......

286 | To a Lady

Dedication to the rev, Mr. Woodeson, of King- Stanzas. -The bird of midnight swellid her
ston upon Thames, and the Ladies of his throat

ib.
Neighbourhood

287 | To a young Lady, who objected to sup with a
Julia's printed Letter to Lord

ib. Party of both Sexes that met at a Coffee-house ib.

On rebuilding Combe-Neville, near Kingston, A Dream

Sarrey, once the seat of the famous king- The Mulberry-tree

ib.

making Earl of Warwick, and late in the

Possession of the Family of Harvey......... 289 | On a very fine Lady

ib.
On Lady Pomfret's presenting the University On an Asiatic Lady.

ib.

of Oxford with her Collection of Statues ... 290 To the saine, on her Dress .........................

On rural Sports

291 To the same....

Ode to Captivity. Written in the last War... 292 On reading the foregoing Verses. By Miss- ib.

Imitation from Ossian's Poems. Lately pub- Reply to Miss G-

lished by the Title of Fingal, &C............ ib. Song -Hang my lyre upon the willow... 303

293 Laura's Answer. By Miss G-

294 To Laura, on her receiving a mysterious

Letter from a Methodist Divine.......

ib. To the same. On Politics

To Miss K- P
295 | To Laura.--Farewell to the rose

ib.
To Miss K P

ib. Song to ****.-What! bid me seek another fair, ib.
To Miss K . P-, with Anson's Voyage. ib. On Men being deprived, from Custom and De-
The Complaint of Cambria. To Miss K

licacy, of enjoying social Friendship with

P-, setting to Music, and singing English the Fair-sex

Verses. Done into English from the Welsh To a young Lady, fainting at the News of her
Original ....
ib. Friend's Misfortunes

ib.
On a Present to the Author, of two Impressions On the Death of an Infant.

ib.

from a fine antique Seal of the Head of To Miss N-m, written at Brighthelmstone... ib.

Alexander; the one by Lady P- , on Pa. To the Mistresses R-s, written at Bright-

per; the other by Miss

JP- , in Wax. 296 helmstone...

On the Subject of the Monument in Arcadia. ib. Verses written at Brighthelmstone

ib.
On the same

ib. To Miss G—. From Brighthelmstone...... ib.
Hitchin Convent. A Tale

ib. Answer to the foregoing Verses, by Miss G- ib.

To a young Lady, a very good Actress......... 297 On the Death of a young Gentleman.. 307

To an accomplished Lady. In the Manner of Inscription for a Fountain

ib. On the converting the late Mr. Woodeson's

Address to the Thames

298 House at Kingston into a Poor-house, and

To Mrs. B-, reading Julia with Tears, dur- cutting down the great Walk of bigh Trees

ing a bard Frost

ib. before it .........

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POEMS OF HARTE.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers ........... 312 , To the right honourable Lady Hertford, upon

To the right honourable Charles Earl of Peter- the Birth of Lord Beauchamp

borough and Monmouth ...

........ 319 The Army of Adrastus and bis Allies, march-

Advertisement....

ib. ing from Argos to the Siege of Thebes. From

Ao Essay on Painting. To the right honoura-

the 4th Thebiad of Statius......

ble Thomas Earl of Pembroke

ib. A Simile upon a set of Tea-drinkers....... ib.

Acuntius to Cydippe. Froin Ovid...

324 The same. Diversified in ancient Metre . ib.

Part of Pindar's first Pythian Ode, para- A Soliloquy, occasioned by the Chirping of a

phrased..........

326 Grasshopper....

The Episode of Orpheus and Eurydice, trans- The Story of Arethusa. Translated from the

lated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil...... 327 i 5th Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

ib.
446

... 358

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Angerianus de Coelia. (F.pig. 40.)

329 Christ's Parable of the Sower

Cupid mistaken. From the Sports of Cupid, Introduction

written by Angerianus. Imitated and en- Parable........

ib.

ib. Interpretation

To a young Lady, with Mr. Fenton's Miscellany. ib. The Ascetic; or, Thomas a Kempis: a Vision 361

To Mr. Pope.......

330 The Meditation of Thomas a Kempis

The sixth Thebaid of Statius. Translated into Contentment, Industry, and Acquiescence un-
English, with Notes ....

ib. der the Divine Will. An Ode, written in the

Notes upon the sixth Thebaid of Statius 340 Alpine Parts of Carniola, 1749

The Vision of Death

Introduction ....

346

376
Psalm the civth, paraphrased.....

The Courtier and Prince. A Fable

347
Psalm the cviith, paraphrased

ib.

The enchanted Region; or, mistaken Pleasures 579

To my Soul. From Chancer

Eulogius; or, the charitable Mason.

torical Fable...

An Essay on Satire, particularly on the Dun-

Introduction ......

ciad. Prioted 1730

An Essay on Reason

352

Macarius; or, the Confessor. An Epistle to
To the Prince of Orange, on bis passing through

the rev. Dr. Robert Hort, Canon of Windsor S90

Oxford in his Return from Bath........ 357

Boetius: or, the upright Statesman, a supposed

Epistle from Boetius to his Wife, Rusticiapa. 3.99

The Amaranth, or, religious Poems, consisting Religious Melancholy, an emblematical Elegy 398

of Fables, Visions, Emblems, &c.

358 Meditations on Christ's Death and Passion.

The amaranthine Crown described by Milton. ib. An Emblem .....

Preface.........

ib.

POEMS OF LANGHORNE.

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The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers..... 407 | Theodosius to Constantia, 1760 ................... 430

To the rev. Mr. J. Langhorne, on reading his Elegy, 1760.--The eye of nature never rests

Visions of Fancy, &c. By Miss Whately. 415

from care ......

Sonnet to Mr. Langhorne. By John Scott, Esq. ib. Inscription on the Door of a Study

To the hon, Charles Yorke..

ib. To Lord Granby

Proemium. Written in 1766

416 Monody, 1759.-Ah scenes belev'd ! ah con.

Studley Park. To the rev. Mr. Farrer

scious shades

438
Genius and Valour: a pastoral Poem. Written To Mrs. ******, in Tears for the Death of a
in honour of a Sister-Kingdom, 1763 419 Friend, 1762

ib,
To Mrs. Gillman

ib.

THE VISIONS OF FANCY. IN FOUR ELEGIES.

Fragment of a Poem written at Clare-Hall on

the King's Accession, 1760........

Cæsar's Dream, before tis Invasion of Britain,

Joscription in a Temple of Society

ib.
A Poem to the Memory of Mr. Handel. Writ-

Inscription in a sequestered Grotto, 1763, and
ten in 1760
ib. 1756 ....

434
Left with the Minister of Riponden, a romantic

THB ENLARGEMENT OF THE MIND.

Village in Yorkshire, 1758

Epistle I. To General Craufurd. Written at

Written among the Ruins of Pontefract Castle,

Belvidere, 1763

II. To William Langhorne, M.A. Writ-

The Viceroy: addressed to the Earl of Halifax.

First published in 1762

An Ode to the River Eden. Written in 1759. 428 Precepts of conjugal Happiness.

Autumnal Elegy. To Miss Cracroft, 1763 ... 429 Owen of Carron

To Miss Cracroft, 1763

ib.

To Miss Cracroft. The Complaint of her

Ring-dove, 1759

ib. 1. The Supflower and the Ivy

Soonet in the Manner of Petrarch. To Miss

JI. The evening Priipruse

444

430 JJI. The Laurel and the Reed

To Miss Cracroft. Wrapped round a Nosegay

IV. The garden Rose and the wild Rose.., 445

of Violets, 1761

ib. V. The Violet and the Pansy...

To Miss Cracroft. On the moral Reflections

VI. The Queen of the Meadow and the

contained in ber Answer to the above Verses,

1756 ............:

THE FABLES OF FLORA.

1761.......

ib VII. The Wall-flower.....

447

Written in a Collection of Maps, 1765...... ib. VIII. The Tulip and the Myrtle

ib.

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Menalcas ........

IX. The Bee-flower ....

448 Epistle to Mr.

X, The Wilding and the Broom

449 | To a Lady, on reading an Elegy written by her

XI, The Misletoe and the Passion-flower...... ib. on the Search of Happiness

464
To Almena. From the Banks of the Irwan... ib.

THE COUNTRY JUSTICE.

To George Colman, Esq. Prefixed to the Cor-

respondence of Theodosius and Constantia . 465

III.

An Ode to the Genius of Westmoreland ib.

Hymn to Hope. Written in 1761....... ib.

The Origin of the Veil..

455 Hymn to Plutus

Verses in Memory of a Lady. Written at

Hymn to Humanity..

467

Sandgate Castle, 1768.......

457 Hymn to the rising Sun

Monody. Sung by a Redbreast

A farewell Hymn to the Valley of Irwan ib.

ib. Hymn to the Eternal Providence

A Contemplation.

Inscriptions on a Beech-tree, in the Island of

The Death of Adonis. From the Greek of Bion 469

The Happiness of a moderate Fortune and

A Monody, inscribed to my worthy Friend John

moderate Desires. From the French of Mr.

Scott, Esq. being written in his Garden at

Amwell in Hertfordshire, the Beginning of

the Year 1769 ...

ib. Translations from Petrarch, 1765.

Imitation of Waller. Waller to St. Evremond. ib. Sonnet CLXXIX.

The Duchess of Mazarine. On her Retiring

The amiable King

The happy Villager.

Hymeneal. On the Marriage of his present

Milton's Italian Poems translated.

Majesty.......

461 Address to Signor Mozzi of Macerata ib.

Soog. -Tis o'er, the pleasing prospect's o'er! ib.

Written in a Cottage-garden, at a Village in

Lorraine. Occasioned by a Tradition con-

cerning a Tree of Rosemary

The pastoral Part of Milton's Epitaphium

To the rev. Mr. Lamb...

463 Translation from Catullus

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ib.
ib.
ib.

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ib.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers .... ..... 479 | An Elegy on the Death of a mad Dog. From
The Traveller : or, a Prospect of Society. To the Vicar of Wakefield

504

the rev. Henry Goldsmith

489 | The Clown's Reply

The Deserted Village. To Sir Joshua Rey- Stanzas on Woman. From the Vicar of Wake-

493 field .....

The Haunch of Venison. A poetical Epistle Description of an Author's Bed-chamber .... ib.

497 Lines attributed to Dr. Goldsmith, inserted in

Retaliation. A Poem............

498 the Morning Chronicle of April 3, 1800 ... ib.

Postscript ...,

500 Letter to the Editors. By James Boswell...... ib.

Poetical Epistle to Dr. Goldsmith, or, Supple- Song, intended to have been sung in the Comedy
ment to his Retaliation. (From the Gentle- of She Stoops to Conquer

ib.
man's Magazine for August 1778)............ ib. Stazas on the taking of Quebec..

ib.
The Hermit. A Ballad. First printed in the Epitaph on Dr. Parnell

506

501 | Epitaph on Edward Purdon

The Double Transformation. A Tale. Pub- An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary

lished in Dr. Goldsmith's Volume of Essays,

502 | A Sonnet.-Weeping, murmuring, complain-

The Gift. To Iris, in Bow-Street, Covent ing.....

503 Song From the Oratorio of the Captivity ib.

The Logicians refuted. In Imitation of Dean Song.-- memory! thou fond deceiver ib,

ib. A Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet

On a beautiful Youth, struck blind by Light- Laberius, a Roman Knight, whom Cæsar

ning. Imitated from the Spanish

504 forced upon the Stage. Preserved by Ma-

A new Simile. In the Manner of Swift ib. crobius .....

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