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THE object of this Work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical Poets, from Ben Jonson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with Biographical and Critical notices of their Authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth. The Work, within these bounds, may be termed a “Library of Classical English Poetry,” and may safely be recommended to the heads of Schools in general, and to the libraries of Young Persons.

CONTENTS.

Page

Paradise Lost. In Twelve Books.

To William Camden..

From Cynthia's Revels.

From the Silent Woman.

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, Sister

to Sir Philip Sidney....

On Lucy Countess of Bedford..

Song to Celia..

From the Shepherd's Holiday..

Love, a little Boy. From the Masque on Paradise Regained. In Four Books.

Lord Haddington's Marriage...

Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H....

Samson Agonistes; a Dramatic Poem .....

Christmas Hymn.

Tentanda via est, gc.
The Motto.

6
Honor..

ib.

The Chronicle. A Ballad...

ib.

Anacreontics; or some Copies of Verses, trans- To Amoret.

lated paraphrastically out of Anacreon. To the Same

ib. Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs

ib. A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the

8 Present Greatness, and Joint Interest, of

his Highness and this Nation

VIII. The Epicure.

ib. Of English Verse ...

ib. The Story of Phæbus and Daphne applied .. ib.

X. The Grasshopper

XI. The Swallow...

Elegy upon Anacreon; who was choked by On a Girdle

a Grape-stone. Spoken by the God of To Zelinda.

Ode, from Catullus. Acme and Septimius 10

The Complaint....

Hymn to Light..

11
Against Hope..

12

Annus Mirabilis : the Year of Wonders, 1666 149

13

Claudian's Old Man of Verona.

Alexander's Feast : or, the Power of Music.

An Ode in honor of St. Cecilia's Day..

From the Davideis.

Palamon and Arcite: or, the Knight's Tale.

In Three Books.

L'Allegro .....

17 The Wife of Bath, her Tale...

18 The Character of a Good Parson.

19 Theodore and Honoria .

21 Religio Laici. An Epistle

.....

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to

The Cock and the Fox; or, the Tale of the

Nun's Priest...

The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in

Rural Sports. A Georgic. In Two Cantoes.

Cymon and Iphigenia.

Trivia: or the Art of walking the Streets of

London. In Three Books.

J. PHILIPS.

Book I. Of the Implements for Walking

the Streets, and Signs of the

The Splendid Shilling..

Cider: a Poem, in two Books.

II. Of Walking the Streets by Day 289

III. Of Walking the Streets by Night: 294

215 Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan 297.

A Ballad, from the What-d'ye-call-it... ib.

Fable. The Goat without a Beard.... 298.

Fable. The Universal Apparition

Fable. The Jugglers.....

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style. 221 Fable. The Hare and many Friends..

A Night-Piece on Death....

223 The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals... 300

The Hermit.....

224 Monday ; or, the Squabble..

: or, the Rise of Woman.

226 Tuesday; or, the Ditty...

An Allegory on Man..

Wednesday; or, the Dumps.

The Book-Worm..

228 Thursday; or, the Spell .

Friday; or, the Dirge..

Saturday; or the Flights

Fable. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven : 309

Fable. The Turkey and the Ant.

Colin's Complaint. A Song:

230

The Contented Shepherd. To Mrs. A

D- afterwards his Wife...

A Song. Ah! Willow. To the same in her

ib. The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert

On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers

A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon. Charles

The Grotto. Written by Mr. Green, under

Lord Halifax, in the year 1701........ 232

the name of Peter Drake, a fisherman of .

The Campaign. A Poem..
234

3:20:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the

The Sparrow and Diamond. A Song.

King

237

Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII.

Colin and Lucy. A Ballad .

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

Henry and Emma. A Poem, upon the Model

of the Nut-Brown Maid....

240 An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus.

Alma: or, the Progress of the Mind. In

From Horace. Book II. Ode XV.. 323

An Epistle from a Lady in England to a

Gentleman at Avignon ..

249 An Ode, inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland

253 at Windsor..

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem,

in Three Books.

Book I. Knowledge..

II. Pleasure ....

The Thief and the Cordelier. A Ballad... 279

The Garland..

280

SOMERVILLE.
An English Padlock.

ib.

The Female Phaeton..

ib. The Chase. In Four Books.

The Despairing Shepherd..

Lady's Looking-Glass. In imitation of

reek Idyllium...

ib.

ib.

The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical The Seasons :

415
Poem. In Five Cantoes.

Spring...

349 The Castle of Indolence: an Allegorical Poem.

351 In Two Cantoes.

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato 352

Eloisa to Abelard..

The Temple of Fame.

355 Ancient and Modern Italy compared: being

the First Part of “Liberty," a Poem... 469

The Fable of Dryope. From Ovid's Meta-
morphoses, Book IX....

359 Greece: being the Second Part of “ Liberty,” 472

Vertumnus and Pomona. From the same, Rome : being the Third Part of “ Liberty,” 477

360 Britain : being the Fourth Part of “ Liberty,” 482

An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles.

The Prospect : being the Fifth Part of

492

Liberty,".

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man

with respect to the Universe 361 Ode
II. Of the Nature and State of Man The Happy Man.

ib.
with respect to Himself, as Song.

499

an Individual...

III. Of the Nature and State of Man Ode

with respect to Society..... 366 Hymn on Solitude
IV. Of the Nature and State of Man To the Rev. Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Strad-

ib.
with respect to Happiness... 368 dishall, in Suffolk ..

Moral Essays. In Five Epistles to several

Epistle I. Of the Knowledge and Char.

acters of Men.......... 372

To the Earl of Dorset

II. Of the Characters of Women

III. On the Use of Riches...... 376 A Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho 501

ib.

IV. Of the Use of Riches.... 379 A Fragment of Sappho ...

V. To Mr. Addison, occasioned

by his Dialogues on Medals 381

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue

to the Satires....

Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue, in imitation of

Virgil's Pollio....

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 386 Ode, written in the year 1746..

Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles

Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy..

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl

Ode to Evening..

The Passions, an Ode for Music..

Dirge in Cymbeline...

An Ode on the popular Superstitions of the

Cadepus and Vanessa.

390 Highlands of Scotland; considered as the

Stella's Birth-Day::

397 Subject of Poetry...

The Journal of a Modern Lady, in a Letter Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.

to a Person of Quality.

On the Death of Dr. Swift.....

Baucis and Philemon. On the ever-lamented

loss of the two Yew-trees in the Parish of

Chilthorne, Somerset. Imitated from the

Grongar Hill....

Eighth Book of Ovid.....

403 The Ruins of Rome.

A Description of the Morning.

The Grand Question Debated: Whether Ham.

ilton's Bawn should be turned into a Bar-

rack or a Malt-house.

On Poetry: a Rhapsody

406) The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser 517

A Description of a City-Shower, in imitation Elegy, describing the sorrow of an ingenuous

of Virgil's Georgics

410 mind, on the melancholy event of a licen-

Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of

tious amour....

Oxford, late Lord Treasurer. Sent to him A Pastoral Ballad. In Four Parts.

when in the Tower..

411 Part 1. Absence.

Mrs. Harris's Petition

ib.
II. Hope ...

ib.
To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded

III. Solicitude.

522
the British Forces in Spain.

412
IV. Disappointment

ib.
The Progress of Poetry ...
ib. The Dying Kid..

523

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