FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES; MEMBER OF THE
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY;

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF GOLDSMITH, LIFE OF BURKE,

ETC. ETC.

IN FOUR VOLUMES

VOL. IV..

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVII.

1337 4.4

Case B

*

18365

Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS, 75, Great Queen Street,
Lincoln's-Inn Fields,

THE HAUNCH OF VENISON; A POETICAL EPISTLE TO

LORD CLARE

71

......

THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. [Now printed from the
original MS. in Goldsmith's hand-writing]

.......

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

The Clown's Reply....

Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a

Roman Knight, whom Cæsar forced upon the stage.

Preserved by Macrobius.........

The Logicians Refuted. In Imitation of Dean Swift ...

111

ib.

112

Epigram on a Beautiful Youth, struck blind by Light-

Stanzas on the taking of Quebec, and Death of General

PAGE

114

.... 115

ib.

· 116

An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize... 117

Description of an Author's Bed-chamber

118

Song, "O Memory! thou fond deceiver!" ....... 120

Song. "The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part."...... ib.

The Double Transformation. A Tale

A New Simile. In the manner of Swift ...

121

125

.... 127

ib.

129

130

Verses, in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Sir George

Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Good-Natured Man.".

.....

135

137

Prologue to the Tragedy of " Zobeide"

An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley

Threnodia Augustalis; sacred to the Memory of Her

Royal Highness, the Princess Dowager of Wales... 139

Letter, in Prose and Verse, to Mrs. Bunbury. [Now

first printed]

149

Epilogue to the Comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer;

or the Mistakes of a Night".......

158

Epilogue to the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer;"

intended to be spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss

Catley

Song. "Ah me! when shall I marry me?"

155

...... 158

159

Epilogue; spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the Character

of Harlequin, at his benefit

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER; OR THE MISTAKES OF A

163

NIGHT. A COMEDY

247

SCENE FROM THE GRUMBLER; A FARCE. [Now first

printed]

333

I.

II.

CRITICISM RELATING TO POETRY AND THE

BELLES-LETTRES.

[Now first collected.]

Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful....................................

VII. Gray's Odes......

III. Thornton and Colman's Connoisseur ..

IV. Wilkie's Epigoniad....

V. Home's Tragedy of Douglas

VI. Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius

VIII. Wise's Enquiries concerning the First Inhabitants,

Language, Religion, Learning, and Letters of

Europe

......

IX. Bayly's Introduction to Languages, Literary and

Philosophical .....

Professor Mallet on the Mythology and Poetry of

the Celtes.......

X.

Burton's Greek Tragedies

xi. Cicero's Tusculan Disputations ...

XII. Massey's Translation of Ovid's Fasti................................

XIII. Marriott's Female Conduct; an Essay on the Art

of Pleasing. To be practised by the Fair Sex,

before and after Marriage ......

412

418

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