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RL UNIRSITY LIBRARY
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J. Wright, Printer, St. John's-Square.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIFTH VOLUME.
PREFACE to Dr. Brookes's Natural History 1
Introduction to A New History of the World 11
Preface to The Roman History
19
Preface to The History of England.
27
Preface to An History of the Earth
33
Preface to The Beautics of English Poetry 45
Preface to A Collection of Poems for Young
Ladies, devotional, moral, and entertain.
ing
59
POEMS.
67
68
A Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet
Laberius
The Double Transformation, a tale
A New Simile, in the manner of Swift
Description of an Author's Bed-chamber..
The Hermit, a ballad
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
71
73
75
85
87
Stanzas on Woman
80
The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society.....
The Deserted Village
- 103
The Gift ..
i. 123
Epitaph on Dr. Parnell
.. 124
Epilogue to the comedy of The Sisters
ib.
Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss
Catley
.. 126
An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley 129
The Haunch of Venison, a poetical epistle to
Lord Clare
131
Song, from the Oratorio of the Captivity - 135
Song
., 136
The Clown's Reply
Epitaph on Edward Purdon
An Elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary
Blaize
137
Retaliation
139
Postscript
148
Song, intended to have been sung in the comedy
of “ She Stoops to Conquer”
149
Prologue to Zobeide, a tragedy, written by
Joseph Craddock, Esq.
150
Epilogue, spoken by Mr. Lee Lewis, in the
character of Harlequin, at his benefit --- 151
The Logicians Refuted, in imitation of Dean
Swift
153
Stanzas on the taking of Quebec
155
On a beautiful Youth, struck blind by lightning ib.
A Sonnet
PLAYS.
99
157
The Good-natur'd Man, a comedy
She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a
Night, a comedy
31
249