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SELECT WORKS
OF THE
BRITISH POETS,
IN
A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES FROM BEN JONSON TO BEATTIE.
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES.
BY DR. AIKIN.
TENTH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART,
No. 126 CHESTNUT STREET.
Printed by T. K & PG Collins.
The Splendid Shilling..
Cider: a Poem, in two Books.
Book I.
II.
....
208
209
PARNELL.
Trivia: or the Art of walking the Streets of
London. In Three Books.
Book I. Of the Implements for Walking
the Streets, and Signs of the
Weather.
287
II. Of Walking the Streets by Day 289
III. Of Walking the Streets by Night 294
215 Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan 297
A Ballad, from the What-d'ye-call-it.
Fable. The Goat without a Beard..
Fable. The Universal Apparition
Fable. The Jugglers.....
A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style. 221 Fable. The Hare and many Friends..
A Night-Piece on Death...
The Hermit.
Hesiod: or, the Rise of Woman.
An Allegory on Man..
The Book-Worm..
ib.
298
299
223 The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals... 300
224
Monday; or, the Squabble.
301
226
Tuesday; or, the Ditty.
302
227
Wednesday; or, the Dumps.
303
228
Thursday; or, the Spell.
305
Friday; or, the Dirge..
306
Saturday; or the Flights..
.. 308
ROWE.
Fable. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven. 309
Fable. The Turkey and the Ant....
An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles.
Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man
with respect to the Universe 361
II. Of the Nature and State of Man
with respect to Himself, as
an Individual....
Ode
The Happy Man.
Song..
363 Song
Hymn on Solitude.
492
498
499
To the Rev. Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Strad-
372
376 A Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho 501
379 A Fragment of Sappho ..
COLLINS.
III. Of the Nature and State of Man
with respect to Society..... 366
IV. Of the Nature and State of Man
with respect to Happiness... 368
Moral Essays. In Five Epistles to several
Persons.
Epistle I. Of the Knowledge and Char-
acters of Men.....
II. Of the Characters of Women
III. On the Use of Riches.....
IV. Of the Use of Riches.
V. To Mr. Addison, occasioned
by his Dialogues on Medals 381
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue
to the Satires.
Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue, in imitation of
Virgil's Pollio.....
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
Satire...
Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer
Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles
Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy..
...
504
388
Ode to Evening.
Ode to Liberty..
505
The Passions, an Ode for Music..
506
507
The Journal of a Modern Lady, in a Letter
Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.
509
to a Person of Quality.
On the Death of Dr. Swift..
399
Baucis and Philemon. On the ever-lamented
DYER.
loss of the two Yew-trees in the Parish of
Chilthorne, Somerset. Imitated from the
Eighth Book of Ovid......
A Description of the Morning.
The Grand Question Debated: Whether Ham-
ilton's Bawn should be turned into a Bar-
rack or a Malt-house..
On Poetry: a Rhapsody.
A Description of a City-Shower, in imitation
of Virgil's Georgics
410
Horace, Book III. Ode II. To the Earl of
Oxford, late Lord Treasurer. Sent to him
A Pastoral Ballad. In Four Parts.
when in the Tower..
411
Mrs. Harris's Petition
To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded
the British Forces in Spain.
The Progress of Poetry...
ib. The Dying Kid..........
406 The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser 517
Elegy, describing the sorrow of an ingenuous
mind, on the melancholy event of a licen-
tious amour...
Part I. Absence.
II. Hope
III. Solicitude.
IV. Disappointment
520
521
522
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