EDINBURGH:

Printed for ALEXANDER DONALDSON;

And fold at his Shop, No. 48. St. Paul's Church-yard,
London, and at Edinburgh.

M. DCC. LXXVI.

L·LIBRA

OF

SNO

1956

ON

LAURISTON CASTLE!
BEQUEST FUND

CONTENT S.

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated,

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES,

Page

I

3

231

34

44

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. I.

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. II.

The First Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. I.

The First Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. VI.

The Second Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. 1.

The Second Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. II. 85

54

60

SATIRES of Dr. JOHN DONNE, Dean of St. Paul's,

On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady

FRANCES SHIRLEY a ftandish and two pens,

151

An ESSAY on SATIRE, occafioned by the death of Mr.

POPE,

153

ESSAY on MAN, in FOUR EPISTLES,

171

Recommendatory Poems,

173

EPIST. I. Of the Nature and State of Man with re-

Spect to the Universe,

183

EPIST. II. Of the Nature and State of Man with re-

Spect to himself, as an individual,

195

- EPIST. III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

refpect to Society,

207

EPIST. IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness,

218

The

EPIST. I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of MEN, 239

EPIST. II. Of the Characters of WOMEN,
EPIST. III. Of the Ufe of RICHES,

EPIST. IV. Of the Ufe of RICHES,

MISCELLANIES.

249

260

279

To Mr. ADDISON, occafioned by his Dialogues on ME

DALS,

To ROBERT Earl of Oxford and Mortimer,

To JAMES CRAGGS, Efq; Secretary of State,

To Mr. JERVAS, with Mr. Dryden's tranflation of
Frefnoy's Art of Painting,

To Mifs BLOUNT, with the Works of Voiture,

289

292

293.

294

296.

To the Same, on her leaving the town after the Coronation,

298

To Mr. THOMAS SOUTHERN, on his Birth day,

To Mifs M. B. on her Birth-day,

To Mr. JOHN MOORE, author of the celebrated Worm

300

301

powder,

ib..

The Baffet-table, an Eclogue,

3.03.

307

Verbatim from Boileau,

Anfwer to a Question of Mrs. HOWE,

Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace the Duke of
Buckingham,

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,

On his Grotto at Twickenham, compofed of Marbles,

Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals,

312

E PITA P H S.

I. On CHARLES Earl of DORSET, in the church of

Withyam in Suffex,

II. On Sir WILLIAM TRUMBULL,

III. On the Hon. SIMON HARCOURT, only son of

Lord Chancellor Harcourt; at the church of

Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire,

IV. On JAMES CRAGGS, Efq. in Weftminster-

Abbey,

313

314

ib.

315

V. Intended for Mr. Rowe, in Weftminfter-Abbey, ib.

VI. On Mrs. CORBET, who died of a cancer in her

breaft,

317

VII. On the monument of the Hon. ROBERT DIGBY,

and of his fifter MARY,

ib.

VIII. On Sir GODFREY KNELLER, in Westminster-

XI. On Mr. GAY in Westminster-Abbey,

XII. Intended for Sir ISAAC NEWTON, in Weftmin-

fter-Abbey,

XIII. On Dr. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, Bishop of

Rochefter, who died in exile at Paris, 1732,

a Dialogue,

XIV. On EDMUND Duke of BUCKINGHAM,

died in the 19th year of his age,

ib.

320

*

ib.

321

who

322

XV. For one who would not be buried in Weftmin-

fter-Abbey,

ib.

Another on the fame,

323

EPIGRAM S.

For one who made long Epitaphs,

Engraved on the collar of a dog, which I gave his

Royal Highness,

323

ib.

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