The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament-Integrity of Heart.

Believe me,

Sir,

Your obliged humble Servant,

CHARLES SNART.

Newark, January 1, 1807.

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THE Judgment of the Flowers .........

Verses in Answer to a scurrilous Paper..

from the English Chronicle ....

Fields of Fontenoy ................

Damon and Sylvia .....

Damon and Chloe

Hope .....................

The Year ............

Sonnet to Mrs. G. ....... ... ....

Impromptu on a Tax upon Spirits ....

Epitaph on Dr. Johnson ....

Epigram ..................

Song .......

Maria’s Evening Service ....

Sonnet to Mrs. Smith ....

Sonnet .............

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Inscribed on the Wall of a Summer-house 18

Verses under a Bust of Comus ...... 20

To Mrs. — with a Ring ........

Ingredients of Contentment .....

The Firstof November .......

Invocation to the Rose

Duncan's Warning....

To E. S. ...........

The Recantation ......

Invocation to Health ....

An old Ballad ....................

Sonnet to Mr. Jackson .............. 3+

Translation of Fenelon's (de to Solitude

A Persian Song ......

Sonnet to Hope ......

The Vain Attempt...... ...... 39

Ode to Sleep .................

Epitaph on W. Shenstone, Esq.........

on a Sportsman ..............

- on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk ....

- on a Horse

on Nicholas Rowe, Esq. ......

on Mrs. Wr-n......

David's Lamentation .....

Castles in the Air......

The Field of Battle........

The Birch .........

Verses by R. B. Sheridan, Esq.........

Epitaph ...........................

Epitaph by Bishop Lowth on his Daughter 61

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Song .............................

The Invitation ....... ......... 63

Verscs cnpied from the Window of a

Lodging-house ................ 65

The Tear ........................

Ode by J. Rannie ......

Verses by Sir John llenry More ....

A Winter Piece ........... ......

Translation of the above in Latin ....

To llope ...

The Tender Wish ......

Elegy .......

Sonnet ................

Solicitude ........

Elegy on the Plain of Fontenoy

- Night....

To Lavinia at Fifteen ....

An Estimate of Life ........

The Fair Moralist .......

Answer to the Triple Plca

May .............................

Sonnet to Evening .....

The Chaplet .........

Love at First Sight.......

Imitation of Horace, Lib, 1, Ode 19 ...

Verses by Sir Henry Wotton .........

Epistle from Cotton to Isaac Walton....

Song ........... ...............

Song .......

Content ......................... 99

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