MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF

MRS. WALTER S. BARKER
FEBRUARY 25, 1931

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First Edition printed 1880.

Reprinted with considerable corrections 1883, 1889.
Reprinted 1892, 1896 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907,
1908, 1909, 1912, 1913.

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

The Day of Judgement

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Book I

32

33

Prof. J. Nichol

34

39

Mark Pattison

55

70

73

77

82

83

85

Book IV

Moral Essays, I

91

97

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

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

Augustus

Extract from the Epilogue to the Satires

: Conclusion of the Dunciad

AMBROSE PHILIPS (1671-1749)

Extract from the Ode to Miss Carteret

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

135

136

138

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

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 were 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'

George Saintsbury 183

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

Book IV

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

Austin Dobson 194

197

203

Prof. E. Dowden 206

210

214

George Saintsbury 217

219

219

221

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)

Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)

Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

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

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

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

248

⚫ 253

Suffering and Sympathy (from The Schoolmistress)

Pastoral Ballad.

The Dying Kid

269

George Saintsbury 271

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

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline