HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF PROF. JAMES HARDY ROPES MARCH 14, 1934

THIRD EDITION.

Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by 'News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

The Beasts' Confession

Prof. J. Nichol

34

39

The Day of Judgement

Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Canto III

Moral Essays, I

97

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.

Augustus

Extract from the Epilogue to the Satires

;;; from the Dunciad, Book IV

Conclusion of the Dunciad

AMBROSE PHILIPS (1671-1749)

Extract from the Ode to Miss Carteret

131

132

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

156

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:

PAGE

Prof. W. Minto 159

Jenny and Peggy

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou w re my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

A Snow Scene, from 'Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from 'Autumn'

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

"

Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Extract from The Chase, Book I'

EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765)

Extract from The Last Day; Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from 'Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

PAGE

. W. E. Henley 230.

Epigrams

JOHN BYROM (1691-1763)

The Nimmers

Careless Content

On the Origin of Evil

RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)

Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)

Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and all of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747

Prologue to the Comedy of Word to the Wise

1

JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708–1788)

248

Suffering and Sympathy (from The Schoolmistress)

Pastoral Ballad.

The Dying Kid

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

Ode to Liberty

Ode

Ode to Evening

The Passions