1173
W26
1918
Vol13

COPYRIGHT

First Edition printed 1880.

Reprinted with considerable corrections 1883, 1889.
Reprinted 1892, 1896, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1908,
1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916.

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 :

Mark Pattison

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

103

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To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

Edmund W. Gosse 154

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:

PAGE

Prof. W. Minto 159

Jenny and Peggy

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou were my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extraets 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'

George Saintsbury 183

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Extract from The Chase, Book I

191

Prof. E. Dowden

206

210

George Saintsbury 217

Extracts from The Grave:

Self Murder

Omnes eodem cogimur

The Resurrection

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

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)

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

CHARLES WESLEY:

JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

Christmas Hymn

Easter Hymn

Christ, the Refuge of the Soul

Christ our Example

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

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