CHAP.

XX. The danger of profperity

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XXI. The happiness of folitude. The hermit's history 60

XXII. The happiness of a life led according to nature

XXIII. The Prince and his Sifter divide between them

the work of obfervation

XXIV. The Prince examines the happiness of high

stations

XXV. The Princefs perfues her enquiry with more

diligence than fuceefs

XXVI. The Princefs continues her remarks on private

life

XXVII. Difquifition upon greatnefs

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XXVIII. Raffelas and Nekayah continue their converfation 77

*XXVIII. The debate of marriage continued '

XXIX. Imlac enters, and changes the converfation

XXX. They vifit the pyramids

XXXI. They enter the pyramid.

XXXII. The princcfs meets with an unexpected mis-

fortune

XXXIII. They return to Cairo, without Pekuah

XXXIV. The Princefs languishes for want of Pekuah

XXXV. Pekuah is ftill remembered. The progrefs of

forrow

XXXVI. The Princefs hears news of Pekuah

XXXVII. The adventures of the lady Pekuah

XXXVIII. The adventures of Pekuah continued

XXXIX. The hiftory of a man of learning

XL. The aftronomer difcovers the cause of his un-

eafincis

XLI. The opinion of the aftronomer is explained

XLII. The aftronomer leaves Imlac his directions

XLIII. The dangerous prevalence of imagination

XLIV. They difcourfe with an old man

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XLV. The Princefs and Pekuah vifit the aftronomer

XLVI. The Prince enters and brings a new topick

XLVII. Imlae difcourfes on the nature of the foul

XLVIII. The conclufion, in which nothing is concluded 143.

The VISION of THEODORE, the Hermit of Teneriffe,

LONDON: a Poem. In imitation of the Third Satire

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of Juvenal. Written in 1738

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THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. In imitation
of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the

Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane, 1747

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, Apr. 5, 1750, before the

Mafque of Comus, acted at Drury-Lane Theatre,

for the benefit of Milton's grand-daughter

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Prologue to the comedy of The Good-Natured Man, 1769 347

Prologue to the comedy of A Word to the Wife, fpoken

by Mr. Hull, at Covent-Garden Theatre, in 1777,

for the benefit of Mrs. Kelly and her children

Spring, an Ode

Midfummer, an Ode

Autumn, an Ode

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To Miss *****, on her giving the Author a gold and filk

net-work purse, of her own weaving

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To Miss *****, on her playing upon the harpsichord in a

room hung with flower-pieces of her own painting

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Evening, an Ode. To Stella

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Verses written at the request of a Gentleman to whom a

Lady had given a sprig of myrtle

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury aflizes

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To Lyce, an elderly lady

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On the death of Mr. Robert Levet, a practifer in phyfick 365

Epitaph on Claude Philips, an itinerant musician

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, Baronettum

Paraphrase of the above epitaph

To Mifs Hickman, playing on the spinnet

Paraphrafe of Proverbs, chap. vi. verfes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Horace, lib. iv. ode vii. tranflated

On seeing a bust of Mrs. Montague

Anacreon. Ode ix.

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Lines written in ridicule of certain poems, publifhed in 1777 375

Parody of a translation from the Medea of Euripides
Burlesque of the modern verfifications of ancient Legen-

dary Tales. An Impromptu

Translation of the two first stanzas of the song "Rio verde,

Rio verde," printed in Bishop Percy's Reliques of

Ancient Poetry. An Impromptu

Imitation of the style of ****

Burlesque of the following lines of Lopez de Vega. An

Impromptu

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Tranflation of fome lines at the end of Baretti's Easy

Phrafeology. An Impromptu

Improvifo. Tranflation of a Diftich on the Duke of Mo-

dena's running away from the Comet in 1742 or 1743 379

Improvifo. Translation of some lines of Monf. Benferade

à fon lit

Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth

Tranflation of some lines written under a print representing

Impromptu. Tranflation of the fame

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persons skaiting

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Impromptu. On hearing Mifs Thrale confulting with a

friend about a gown and hat fhe was inclined to

To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her thirty-fifth year.

An Impromptu

Impromptu. Tranflation of an air 'in the Clemezza de
Tito of Metaftafio, beginning " Deh fe piacerni vuoi"

Tranflation of a speech in Aquileio, in the Adriano of

Metaftafio, beginning "Tu che in corte invechiafti”

POEMATA

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