PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON: J. NICHOLS AND SON ; R. BALDWIN ; P. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON; LEIGH AND SOTHEBY; R. FAULDER AND SON; G. NICOL AND SON; T. PAYNE ; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND 1810, CONTENTS. VOL. VII. Page THE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ..... 3 Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry II. That a Pleasant Poverty is to be pre- 41 ferred before Discontented Riches... ib. ib. 42 IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition 48 V. In Commendation of the Time we live Dedication ib. under, the Reign of our gracious The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems.. 49 ib. VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... ib. MISCELLANIES. ib, SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON The Motto 67 59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from In felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem 60 the Northern Expedition against the Scots.. 69 Upon the happie Birth of the Duke ib. On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton....... An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honour- On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master ib. ib. On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland 62 ) Friendship in Absence ib, ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge- 63 To a Lady who made Posies for Rings...... ib. Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince ib. To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue ib. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. 75 Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who In Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L. V. Ep. was drowned leaping into the Water to sare d Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir- To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two First gin, written in Latin by the Right Worship- Books of Gondibert, finished before his ................................. : ib. |