H POST SCRIPT. AVING now, by the advice and affiftance of my friends, brought this Collection of POEMS to a com petent fize, it has been thought proper that the further progrefs of its growth fhould here be ftop'd. From the loofe and fugitive pieces, fome printed, others in manufcript, which for forty or fifty years paft have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the moft judicious opinions I could obtain in diftinguifhing their merits, endeavour'd to felect and preferve the best. The favourable reception which the former volumes have met with, demands my warmeft acknowledgments, and calls for all my care in compleating the Collection; and in this refpect, if it appear that I have not been altogether negligent, I fhall hope to be allow'd the merit, which is all I claim, of having furnish'd to the Public an elegant and polite Amusement. Little more need be added, than to return my thanks to several ingenious friends, who have obligingly contributed to this Entertainment. If the reader fhould happen to find, what I hope he feldom will, any pieces which he may think unworthy of having been inferted; as it would ill become me to attribute his diflike of them to his own want of Tafte, fo I am too conscious of my own deficiencies not to allow him to impute the infertion of them to mine. R. DODSLEY. ************* H INDEX to the Sixth Volume. **** 5. To a Friend Sick, written Ymn to the Naiades, 1746| 30 54 - in two Books tentment 91 2. For a Statue of Chaucer The Grotto: an Ode to Silence at Woodstock 3. 4. 5. - 97 31The Picture of Human Life 100 321 The Dropfical Man 33 Paradife regain'd Walpole 125 126 6. For a Column at Runny-To the Right Hon. Sir Robert 129 35 To a Lady on a Landscape of her 37 Ode to Cupid on Valentine's 1. Written at the Convent of Day 135 137 Haut Villiers in Cham-To the Hon. and Rev. F C. 138 pagne, 1754 41 To the Rev. T*** T**, D. D. 142 148 2. On the Mausoleum of Hon. George Buffy Villers, To a Lady very handsome, but at Rome, 1756 44 50 155 Anacreon. Ode III. - 157 Infcription W*** Y *** 230 Infcription on a Grotto of Shells | Lady Mary W***, to Sir ibid. Grotto built by Nine Sifters Mifs Soper's Anfwer to a Lady, 162 who invited her to retire into Repentance To Venus. A Rant, 1732 164 231 232 233 Imitated from the Spanish Cynthia, an Elegiac Poem 234 Letter from Smyrna to his Sif- To Chlorinda 239 241 ters at Crux-Eafton, 1733 The Fable of Ixion. To Chlo- Part of a Letter to my Sifters at A Tale. To Chlorinda 172 Horace, Book II. Ode II. Leter from Marfeilles to my A Panegyric on Ale 242 246 250 253 255 258 Sifters at Crux-Eafton, May Ode to the Genius of Italy, oc- 174 cafioned by the Earl of Corke's 213 The Cheat's Apology- To the Memory of an agreeable Another 267 268 270 271 Lady buried in Marriage to a To Mr. Grenville on his in- An Elegy, written on Valen-To Mr. Garrick, on his erecting An Ode to Sculpture · True Refignation 276 On a Spider 280 The Play-Thing chang'd 298 299 Epiftle from the King of Pruffia The Fable of Jotham: To the - 281 Borough-Hunters 300 to Mr. Voltaire At feeing Archbishop Williams's An Elegy written in an empty Monument in Carnarvonshire Affembly-Room 302 The Fakeer: A Tale 306 To Mr. Whitehead, on his being made Poet Laureat 309 Verfes on the Profpect of planting Arts and Learning in America 284 Extempore Verfes upon a Trial of Skill between the two great Mafters of Defence, Meffieurs Figg and Sutton 286 A Letter from Cambridge to a young Gentleman at Eton To Mr. Mafon School The Indolent The Song of Simeon paraphrafed 311 312 290 Ode To Independency 294 Ode. On Melancholy. 295 Ode 297 Poftfcript 333 ibid. On the Invention of Letters 296 Ode The Anfwer On Wit 321 326 The EN D |