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Character of a critical Fribble (from the same)
Characters of Quin, Sheridan, and Garrick (from the
Introduction to the Night Thoughts-Uncertainty of
human Happiness-Universality of human Misery
(from Night I.)
Apology for the Seriousness of the Subject (from
Night II.)
Madness of Men in Pursuit of Amusements (from the
same)
Blessedness of the Son of Foresight (from the same)
Society necessary to Happiness (from the same)
Complaint for Narcissa (from Night III.)
Comparison of the Soul viewing the Prospects of Im-
mortality to the Prisoner enlarged from a Dungeon
(from Night IV.)
2
The Danger to Virtue of Infection from the World
(from Night V.)
Page
64
Insufficiency of Genius without Virtue (from Night VI.) 66
Description of the Man whose Thoughts are not of this
World (from Night VIII.)
The Love of Praise (from Satire I.)
Propensity of Man to false and fantastic Joys (from
Satire V.)
Characters of Women-The Wedded Wit (from the
The Astronomical Lady (from the same)
The Languid Lady (from the same)
The Swearer (from the same)
JOHN BROWN
From the Tragedy of Barbarossa
From the same
Selim's Soliloquy before the Insurrection
MICHAEL BRUGE
From the Elegy on Spring
From Lochleven
JAMES GRAINGER
Ode to Splitude
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
Song
JAMES MERRICK
The Wish
WILLIAM FALCONER
Character of the Officers (from the Shipwreck)
Evening described-Midnight-The Ship weighing
Anchor and departing from the Haven (from the
ib.
69
70
96
. 100
106
Distress of the Vessel-Heaving of the Guns overboard
(from the same)
Council of Officers-Albert's Directions to prepare for
the last Extremities (from the same)
The Vessel going to pieces-Death of Albert (from
113
Final Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty (from the same) 139
Mental Beauty (from the same)
Pleasure next in the Passions of Grief, Pity, and In-
dignation (from Book II.)
Enjoyments of Genius in collecting her Stores for
Composition (from Book III.)
Conclusion (from the same)
Inscription for a Bust of Shakspeare
THOMAS CHATTERTON
141
142
Bristowe Tragedie, or the Dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin 163
CHRISTOPHER SMART
Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle (in the mock play
of a "Trip to Cambridge, or the Grateful Fair") .
Ode on an Eagle confined in a College Court
THOMAS GRAY
'The Bard: a Pindaric Ode
On Education
On Vicissitude
Specimen of the Tragedy of Agrippina
CUTHBERT SHAW
From the Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
The Tears of Scotland
Ode to Leven Water
Ode to Independence
ANONYMOUS.-Song (from the Shamrock, or Hibernian
Crosses, Dublin 1772)
Epigram on two Monopolists (from the same)
JOHN CUNNINGHAM
Content: a Pastoral
May-Eve; or,
Kate of Aberdeen
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251
268
283
298
303
305
307
322
GEORGE, LORD LYTTLETON
From the Monody
ROBERT FERGUSSON
The Farmer's Ingle
THOMAS SCOTT
Government of the Mind (from Lyric Poems)
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTER-
FIELD
On Nash's Picture at full Length between the Busts of
Sir I. Newton and Mr. Pope, at Bath
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
The Deserted Village
The Haunch of Venison
PAUL WHITEHEAD
Hunting Song
WALTER HARTE
Eulogius: or, the Charitable Mason
Contentment, Industry, and Acquiescence under the Divine Will: an Ode
ANONYMOUS.-Verses copied from the Window of an
obscure Lodging-house, in the Neighbourhood of
London (from the Annual Register for 1774)
EDWARD LOVIBOND
The Tears of Old May-Day
Song to ***
FRANCIS FAWKES
The Brown Jug
JOHN ARMSTRONG
Opening of the Poem in an Invocation to Hygeia
(from the Art of Preserving Health, Book I.)
Choice of a rural Situation, and allegorical Picture of
the Quartan Ague (from the same)
Recommendation of a high Situation on the Sea-coast
Address to the Naiads (from Book II.)
RICHARDSON
Ode to a Singing Bird
JOHN LANGHORNE
From the Country Justice
Gypsies (from the same)
A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice
341
349
351
354
355
357
360
HENRY BROOKE
RICHARD JAGO
Labour and Genius; or, the Mill-stream and the Cas-
cade: a Fable
The Reptile and Insect World (from Universal Beauty,
Book V.)
JOHN SCOTT
Ode on hearing the Drum