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Extract from An Ode to the Spleen
In Answer to Mr. Pope
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
A Description of the Morning
Prof. J. Nichol
Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718
Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by News from Parnassus'
Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa
The Beasts' Confession
The Day of Judgement
Extracts from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
Extracts from the Essay on Man :
Book I
Book IV
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Moral Essays, I
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.
PAGE
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms
156
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison
ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)
Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:
Jenny and Peggy
Patie and Peggy
Through the Wood, Laddie
An thou were my ain thing
JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).
Extracts from The Seasons:
A Snow Scene, from Winter' .
The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'
The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'
Storm in Harvest, from Autumn'
Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I
JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709-1779)
Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III
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Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)
Extract from The Chase, Book I
Edmund W. Gosse 189
EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765) .
Extract from The Last Day, Book I
The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)
Extracts from Night Thoughts:
Procrastination, from Night I
The Death of Friends, from Night III
Aspiration, from Night IV
The Stream of Life, from Night V
Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)
Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost
Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London) .
Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:
The Rise and Fall of Wolsey
The True Objects of Desire
Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747
Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise
JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)
Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)
276
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
Dirge in Cymbeline
Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West
Sketch of his own Character
Impromptu on Lord Holland's Seat at Kingsgate
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (1715-1785)
MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770)
Extract from The Pleasures of Imagination
On the Winter Solstice, 1740
For a Grotto
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1770)
Extracts from A Song to David
WILLIAM FALCONER (1732-1769)
Extract from The Shipwreck. Canto III
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774)
Extract from The Deserted Village
317
318
321
323
326
331
Sonnet written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's' Monasticon'
To the River Lodon.
CHARLES CHURCHILL (1731-1764)
E. J. Payne 389
George Saintsbury 396
397
Description of his Muse (from The Prophecy of Famine).
Characters of Actors (from The Rosciad) .
Description of Johnson (from The Ghost).
Charles the First (from Gotham)
JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803).
Extract from The Minstrel, Book I
THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)
An Excellent Ballad of Charity.
Eclogue the First
W. Theodore Watts 400