B Y

WILLIAM COW PER,

Of the INNER TEMPLE, Efq.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL I.

Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis
Sole repercuffum, aut radiantis imagine lunæ,
Omnia pervolitat latè loca, jamque fub auras
Erigitur, fummique ferit laquearia tecti.

So water trembling in a polish'd vase,
Reflects the beam that plays upon

its face,
The sportive light, uncertain where it falls,
Now ftrikes the roof, now flashes on the walls.

VIRG. EN. VIII.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. JoHNSON, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard,

M, D C C, LXXXVI 1 I.

BIBLIOTHEK

MUENCHEN

BIBLIOTHEK

MUENGHEN

A Comparison

Page

41

73

103

140

180

212

258

299

302

304.

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander
Selkirk, during his folitary Abode in the

Inland of Juan Fernandes

On the Promotion of EDWARD THURLOW,

305

Efq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England 309

Report of an adjudged Cafe not to be found in any

of the Bocks

315

in the BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA

1

On the burning of Lord Mansfield's Library toge

ther with his MSS. by the Mob, in June 1780

On the fame

The Love of the World reproved; or Hypocrify

318

319

328

On a Goldfinch ftarved to Death in a Cage

Horace, Bock the 2d, Ode the 10th

329

332

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Senfitive Plant

To the Rev. Mr. William Cawthorn Unwin

353

354

357

362

366

TABLE

MUINONEN

TABLE

TALK.

Si te fortè mea gravis uret farcina charte

Abjicito.

HOR. LIB. I. EPIST. 13.

A.

You

OU told me, I remember, glory built
On selfish principles, is fhame and guilt;

The deeds that men admire as half divine,
Stark naught, because corrupt in their defign.

Strange doctrine this! that without fcruple tears
The laurel that the very lightning spares,

VOL. I.

B

Brings