THE Author's Life,

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Elegy XVIII. He repeats the fong of Colin,

a difcerning Shepherd; lamenting the

ftate of the Woolen manufactory,

Elegy XIX. Written in Spring 1743,

Elegy XX. He compares his humble for-

tune with the diftrefs of others; and his

fubjection to Delia with the miferable

fervitude of an African flave,

Elegy XXI. Taking a view of the country

from his retirement, he is led to meditate

on the character of the ancient Britains.

Written at the time of a rumoured tax

upon luxury, 1746,

Elegy XXII. Written in the year-

when the rights of fepulture were fo fre-

quently violated,

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Elegy VII. He defcribes his vifion of an ac-

quaintance,

Elegy Vill. He defcribes his early love of

Poetry, and its confequences,

Elegy IX. He defcribes his difinterestedness

to a friend,

ib.

Elegy XXIII. Reflections fuggefted by his

fituation,

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Elegy X. To Fortune; fuggefting his mo-
tives for repining at her difpenfations,
Elegy XI. He complains how foon the
pleafing novelty of life is over,
Elegy XII. His Recantation,

Elegy XIII. To a friend, on fome flight oc-
cafion eftranged from him,

Elegy XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit
foreign countries, he takes occafion to in-
timate the advantages of his own,
Elegy XV. In the memory of a private fa-
mily in Worcestershire,
Elegy XVI. He fuggefts the advantages of
birth to a perfon of merit, and the folly of
a fupercilioufnefs that is built upon that
fole foundation,
Elegy XVII. He indulges the fuggeftions of
Spleen,

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The Princess Elizabeth: A Ballad alluding
to a story recorded of her, when the was
prifoner at Woodstock, 1554,

Ode to a Young Lady, fomewhat too folici-
tous about her manner of expreffion,