Fat many whiters mi edicers have hina Tak vite ming vicut incurring Joh. B. I have another, and perhaps . I wished to give such

prinde ne konuld be had, and might be pubhit by the various talents of the Author;

and, for the sake of the example, to show, that, though studious and learned, he was neither austere nor formal; and that in him the strictest piety and modesty were united with the utmost chearfulness, and even playfulness, of disposition.

I have the honour to be,

GENTLEMEN,

Your ever-obliged and

Most faithful Friend and Servant,

JAMES BEATTIE.

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Messias

Sonnet (by Mr. Gray) on the Death of Mr. Richard

Dirge in Cymbeline, by Mr. Collins

Poematis, cui titulus the Minstrel, Fragmentum

From the Minstrel, Book II. Stanz. 17, 18

75

80

Song. By

Lines adapted to a favourite Military Air

On the Death of Mr. James Valentine

Gulielmo Wilson, Chirurgo, A. M. in Indiam Occi-
dentalem Navigaturo. Ode

In Obitum Nobilis Infortunate Elegia. Pope's Elegy

The Modern Tippling Philosophers

Fashion. A Dialogue

Epitaph on Diophantus

Epitaphium Diophanti

Lethe. A Ballad .

The Descent of Timothy

Tom Jones

107

Horace. Epist. I. 5. imitated

Horace. Epist. I. 18. imitated

Dialogues of the Dead. I. Addison, Johnson

II. Socrates, Johnson, and a Fine Gentleman

III. Swift, a Bookseller, and Mercury