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POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHENSTONE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS:
BY
THOMAS PARK, ES2. F.S. A.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
Printed at the Stanhope Press,
BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, Union Buildings, Leather Lane;
FOR JOHN SHARPE, OPPOSITE YORK-HOUSE,
PICCADILLY.
Description of the Leasowes, by R. Dodsley. 24
Prefatory Essay on Elegy .
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52
ELEGIES, WRITTEN ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.
He arrives at his Retirement in the Country,
and takes occasion to expatiate in praise
of Simplicity. To a Friend...
On posthumous Reputation. To a Friend... 63
On the untimely Death of a certain learned
Acquaintance
Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. G-
He compares the Turbulence of Love with
the Tranquillity of Friendship. To Me-
lissa, his Friend....
To a Lady, on the Language of Birds......
64
68
69
He describes his Vision to an Acquaintance... 70
He describes his early Love of Poetry, and its
Consequences. To Mr. G-
1745...
He describes his Disinterestedness to a Friend
To Fortune, suggesting his Motive for repining
at her Dispensations..
He complains how soon the pleasing Novelty
of Life is over. To Mr. J-
His Recantation
To a Friend, on some slight Occasion estrang-
ed from him........
73
75
76
79
82
Declining an Invitation to visit foreign Coun-
tries, he takes occasion to intimate the
Advantages of his own. To Lord Temple 83
In Memory of a private Family in Worcester-
shire.......
He suggests the Advantages of Birth to a Per-
son of Merit, and the Folly of a Superci-
liousness that is built upon that sole Foun-
dation...
He indulges the Suggestions of Spleen: an
Elegy to the Winds...
He repeats the Song of Colin, a discerning
Shepherd, lamenting the State of the
Woollen Manufactory...
Written in Spring 1743......
He compares his humble Fortune with the
Distress of others, and his Subjection to
Delia with the miserable Servitude of an
African Slave
Taking a View of the Country from his Re-
tirement, he is led to meditate on the
Character of the ancient Britons. Writ-
ten at the time of a rumoured Tax upon
Luxury, 1746.
Written in the Year, when the Rights of
Sepulture were so frequently violated..... 107
Reflections suggested by his Situation.......... 110
He takes occasion, from the Fate of Eleanor
of Bretagne, to suggest the imperfect
Pleasures of a solitary Life......
To Delia, with some Flowers; complaining
how much his Benevolence suffers on ac-
count of his humble Fortune........
Describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind
on the melancholy Event of a licentious
Amour...
113
116
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LEVITIES: OR, PIECES OF HUMOUR.............. 122