The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

VII. Hark, hark, o'er the plains how the merry Solomon, a Serenata

ib.

bells ring ....

ib. Prologue to Gil Blas

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers 229, The Lottery. Inscribed to Miss H. ............ 243

To Miss ----, of Horsemanden in Kent 233 | Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guilford Dudley. An

Abelard to Eloisa

ib. Epistle in the Manner of Ovid ............... 244

An Elegy to the Memory of Captain Hughes, Of Taste. An Essay...............

a particular Friend of the Author's . 236 Life unhappy, because we use it improperly.
The Equality of Human Conditions : a Poetical A moral Essay....
Dialogue: spoken at the Annual Visitation Prussia, A Poem

............ 248

of Tunbridge School, 1746......

ib. Nobility. A moral Essay

The Birth and Education of Genius. A Tale. 238 The Temple of Hymen. A Tale

251

A Letter to a Clergyman, occasioned by a re- The Vanity of human Enjoyments. An Ethic

port of his Patron's being made one of the Epistle ....

254

Lord's Commissioners of the Great Seal, Wit and Learning. An Allegory

256

1756 .....

241 A Father's extempore Consolation on the Death

The Regulation of the Passions the Source of of two Daughters, who lived only two Days 258

human Happiness. A moral Essay 242 | The Antiquarians. A Tale.........

239

.......... 250

.........

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers..

266 | The Author

Verses on Churchill

272 The Duellist. In three Books.

The Rosciad......

275 Book I.

The Apology. Addressed to the Critical Re-

Night. An Epistle to Robert Lloyd ............ 284 | Gotham. In Three Books.

The Prophecy of Famine. A Scots Pastoral,

Book 1.

Inscribed to John Wilkes, Esq.

287

II.

An Epistle to William Hogarth

291

IU,

The Ghost. In four Books.

The Candidate

Book I.

996 | The Farewell

II.

300 The Times

III.

305 Independence

IV.

313 The Journey

The Conference

328 Dedication to Churchill's Sermons...

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers

381 A Poem sacred to the Memory of his royal

The Shipwreck. In three Cantos.

Highness Frederic Prince of Wales .... 412

Advertisement to the second Edition

387 Ode on the Duke of York's second Departure

Introduction to the Poem

ib. from England as Rear Admiral,...

413

Canto I.

988 The fond Lover, a Ballad

404 On the uncommon Scarceness of Poetry 420

Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding Nar- Description of a ninety gun Ship

ib.
ratire is concluded

411

POEMS OF CUNNINGHAM.

...........

ib.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers 425 Song.--He that love hath never try'd 445
A Card from the Author to David Garrick, Esq. 429 Sappho’s Hymn to Venus imitated

ib.

Imitations from Anacreon.

The Contemplatist. A Night-piece

ib.

(de XXXU. To the Swallow..
The Tbrush and Pie. A Tale
453

ib.

Palemon: a Pastoral

434 The Picture: a Tale

447

The Hawthorn Bower

ib. The Witch: a Tale......

ib.

The Ant and Caterpillar, a Fable
ib. Reputation: an Allegory

ib.

Phillis : a pastoral Ballad

435 The Rose and Butterfly: a Fable

ib.

Pomoda: a Pastoral. On the Cider Bill being

The Sheep and the Bramble-bush: a Fable ... 448

passed

ib. The Fox and the Cat: a Fable

ib.

May-Eve: or, Kate of Aberdeen

ib. Hymen.....

Kitty Fell

436 Fortune: an Apologue

449

Thyrsis

ib. A Man to my Mind. (Wrote at the Request of

A Song sent to Chloe with a Rose

437 Fancy: a Song in a Pantomime Entertainment 451

Stanzas on the Forwardness of Spring

ib.

Love and Chastity: a Cantata
On the Approach of May
ib. Amphitrion

ib.

The Violet

438

Anacreon. Ode xix. imitated

A Landscape

ib.
The Toast: a Catch

jb.

On Sir W— B-t's Birth-day

ib.

The Sycamore Shade. A Ballad

ib. Stanzas spoken at a Play at the Theatre in

Damon and Phyllis. A pastoral Dialogue 440

Sunderland, for the Benefit of the Corsicans ib.

The Warning

ib. The Respite: a Pastoral

ib.

Holiday Gown

ib. An irregular Ode on Music..

ib.

Daphne: a Song

441 From a Truant to his friends..

.... 454

Corydon: a Pastoral. To the Memory of

To the Author of Poems. Written by Nobody. ib.

William Shenstone

ib.

A Birth-day Ode: performed at the Castle of

Damon and Phoebe......

Dublin...

A pastoral Hymn to Janus. On the Birth of

An Inscription on the House at Mavis-Bank,

On the late Absence of May. Written in the

near Edinburgh, situated in a Grove......... ib.

Year 1771

ib.

The Inscription imitated.......

ib. An Eulogium on Masonry. Spoke by Mr.
Avther Inscription on the same House...... ib. Diggs, at Edinburgh

ib.

Imitated

443

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.

Content. A Pastoral

ib. A Prologue, spoke at the Opening of the

Corydon and Phillis. A Pastoral

ib. Theatre at York after it was elegantly en-

An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins

ib.

A Prologue, spoke at the Opening an elegant To Chloe, on a Charge of Inconstancy... 462

lietle Theatre at Whitby...

456 Incantation. Performed at the Theatre in Sun-

A Prologue on Opening the Theatre at Whitby

derland, in a new Pantomime

ib.

the ensuing Scason

ib. Fortune to Harlequin. In a Pantomime jb.

A Prologue, spoke in the Character of a Sailor, Acrostic

ib.

on Opening the new Theatre at North Shields ib. On the Death of Mrs. Sleigh, of Stockton. ib.
An Epilogue, spoke at Norwich, in the Charac-

Acrostic. On Polly Sutton

ib.
ter of Mrs. Deborah Woodcock, in Lore in On the Death of Lord Granby

ib.

a Village

457 | On the Death of Mr. of Sunderland 463

A Prologne to the Muse of Ossian....

ib.

A Petition to the worshipful Free Masons, de-

An Epilogue, spoke in the Character of Lady livered from the Stage by a Lady at a Comedy

Townly, in the Provoked Husband

ib.

countenanced by that Fraternity

ib.

An Epilogue,spoke at Edinburgh, in the Charac.

An Ode for the Birth-day of the King of Prussia ib.

ter of Lady Fanciful

458 An Ode, composed for the Birth-day of the

An Eulogium on Charity. Spoke at Alnwick, late General Lord Blakeney

ib.

in Northumberland, at a charitable Benefit

On a very young Lady

464

Play, 1765

ib. A Sonnet : addressed to Miss S-

ib.

An Epilogue, designed to be spoke at Alnwick, Anacreon. Ode v. imitated. The Rose ib.

on resigning the Playhouse to a Party de-

Moschus. Idyllium vii. (As translated by Dr.

tached from the Edinburgh Theatre

ib.

Broome.) To the Evening Star

ib.

A Prologue to Love and Fame. Spoke at

Pastoral. - Where the fond zephir through the
Scarborough.

459
woodbine plays

ib.

A Prologue to Rule a Wife. Spoke at Edinburgh ib. To Chloe, in an ill Humour

465

A Prologue, on reviving the Merchant of Venice,

at the time the Bill had passed for Natura-

EPIGRAMS, &c.

Jizing the Jews.....

ib. Epigram.---A member of the modern great ... ib.

A Prologue, for some country Lads, perform-

Another.---To Wasteall, whose eyes were just

ing tbe Devil of a Wife, in the Christmas closing in death

ib,

Holidays

ib. On Mr. Churchill's Death

ib.

A Prologue, on Opening the new Theatre in A Postscript ..

ib.

Newcastle, 1766

ib. Epigram for Dean Swift's Monument

ib.

An Introduction, spoke at the Theatre in Sun- Epigram.-Could Kate for Dick compose the

derland, to a Pay performed there for the

Gordian string...

ib.

Benefit of the Widows and Orphans of that Apollo to Mr. C F-, on his being sa-

Place

460 tirized by an ignorant Person......

ib.

An Elegiac Ode on the Death of his late Majesty ib. Or, seeing J. C-ft, Esq. abused in a Newspaper
Horace, Ode x. Book iv. imitated ...... 461 Verses, written about three weeks before his
Sent to Miss Bell H-, with a Pair of Buckles ib. Death

jb.

ib.

POEMS OF GRAINGER.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 469 | Book T.

Solitude. An Ode

475 II.

Bryan and Pyreene. A West Indian Ballad , 477 NII.
The Sugar-Cane: a Poem in four Books.

IV.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 515, To the disconsolate Hilaria, on the much la-
To his Grace, John Duke of Bedford, with the

ib.

mented Death of her dear Sister, Clarissa . 529
following Ode on the Birth of the Marquis Wine the cure of Love. A Ballad

590

of Tavistock, 1740

525 Address to Poverty

531

An Ode sacred to the Birth of the Marquis of On the Death of Sir John James, Bart......... ib.

Tavistock..

ib. On Friendship

Hope's Farewell. An Ode ........................ 526 | Friendship, an Ode. To Dr. William Cumming

Cupid's Revenge ...

527 of Dorchester

532

Translation of Voltaire's Letter to the King of Personal Merit: from the French of M.La Motte ib.

Prussia ....

ib. On Platonic Love

533

Horace, Ode i. Book i. inscribed to James Verses written Noy. 12, 1741, the Birth-day

Donglas, M. D. F. R. S.

528 of Admiral Vernon

ib.

To Cælia's Busk

529 Loch Rian. To the right hon, the Earl of

On Miss Carter's being drawn in the Habit of Stair. Written in the Year 1734......... ib.

Minerva, with Plato in her Hand

ib. / The Triumphs of Nature: a Poem, on the mag-

...

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Page

Page
nificent Gardens at Stowe, in Buckingham- To the Author of the Polite Philosopher ... 573
shire, the Seat of the right hon. Lord Cobham, To his Grace the Duke of Gordon on his

(now of the Marquis of Buckingham.). 534 Return from Scotland ...................... ib.

Job, Chapter iii.

538

To the right hon. Susanna Countess of Eglin-

Anniversary Ode to the Memory of a Daughter

To the right hon. Charles, Lord Kinnaird ... 575

Stanzas from Albion's Triumph. An Ode on To Serena. An Epistle

ib.