THE Minstrel or Progress of Genius

CO N T E N T S.

Fox 223

Dorinda

Fitzpatrick: 217 Verses sent to a young Lady with the new edition of Shakespeare

Carlisle 221 Verses on Mrs. Crewe Rhapsody on Tafte

Carlisle 235 Elegy written in the Garden of a Friend Mason 227 Elegy written in a Country Church Yard

Gray 331 Elegy on Captain Cook Death of Alico

Edwards 249 Monody to the Memory of Lady Lyttleton

Lyttleton" 251 Verses making Part of an Epitaph on the same Lady

ditto 251 Andre

Seward 263 Ode to John Howard, Efq;

Hayley 381

Serward 237

Thefteep where Fame's proud temple shinesafar!
Ab! who can tell how many a foul sublime
Has felt the influence of malignant itar,
And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war!
Check’d by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown,
And Poverty's unconquerable bar,

In life's low vale remote has pined alone,
Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown!

II. And yet, the languor of inglorious days, Not equally oppreffive is to all. Him who ne'er liftend to the voice of praise, The filence of neglect can ne'er appal. There are, who, deaf to mad Ambition's call, Wou'd fhrink to hear th'obftreperous trump of Fame; Supremely bleft if to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace. Nor higher aim Had He, whose fimple tale these artless lines proclaim.

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