Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson

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BALLADS.

Ap Invitation to Mrs. Tyler, a Clergyman's

Page Lady, to dine upon a Couple of Ducks on

I. Sweet William ...............

the Anniversary of the Author's Wedding-

II. The Lass with the golden Locks .........

Day ................................................

SII. On my Wife's Birth-day ................

To Miss S-P- ...............

IV. The Decision ............................ Disertissime Romuli Nepotum, imitated after

V. The talkative Fair ........................

dining with Mr. Murray ...................

VI. The silent Fair .................. ......... Inscriptions on an Xolian Harp ...............
VII. The Force of Innocence ................. An Epigram by Sir Thomas More ...............
VIII. The distressed Damsel ................. The long-nosed Fair ...................
IX. The fair Recluse ........................... Fanny.--Blooming Fair. Translated into La-
X. To Miss ****, one of the Chichester tin, in the Manner of Mr. Bourne .........

Graces. Written in Goodwood Gar. Horace, Ode iv. Ad Xanthiam Phoceum ......

dens, September, 1750 ............... The pretty Chambermaid. In Imitation of
XI. Lovely Harriot. A Crambo Ballad .. ib.

the above Ode of Horace ....................

XII. To Jenny Gray. ............................ Christophorus Smart Samueli Sannders, Col.

XIII. To Miss Kitty Bennet, and her Cat Crop. 72

Regal, S. P. D. .....

XIV. The pretty Bar-keeper of the Mitre.

The fainous general Epitaph from Demos-
Writtep at College, 1741 ............ ib. thenes ...........

XV. The Widow's Resolution. A Cantata.. ib. Carmen in S. Cæciliam. A Latio Version of

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler ........... ................... 73 Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day ............

To the rev. Mr Powell, on the Non-Perform A Latin Version of Milton's L’Allegro .........

ance of a Promise he made the Author of Datur Mapdoruin Pluralitas, A Voyage to the

a Hare ......

Planets. Translated by the Rev. Mr.

Fawkes, A. M.............

EPIGRAMS.

Materies gaudet Vi Inertiæ, The Temple of

1. The sick Monkey..............................

Dullness. Translated by the same Hand.. $4

II. A pollo and Daphne ..............

..........

Mutica Oscitationum Propagatio solvi potest
III. The Miser and the Mouse. From the

mechanice, A mechanical Solution of the

Greek .........................................

Propagation of Yawning. Translated by

IV. On a Woman who was singing Ballads for

the same Hand .....................

Money to bury her dead Husband ... ib.

| The Horatian Canons of Friendship ............ 88

To the right honourable Earl of Darlington, An occasional Prologue and Epilogue to Othello,

on bis being appointed Paymaster of his as it was acted at the Theatre Royal in

Majesty's Forces ........................

Drury Lane, on Thursday the 7th of March,

On the Death of Master Newberry. After a 1751, by Persous of Distinction, for their

lingering Illness .........

ib. Diversion ................,

..............

Epitaph on the rev. Mr. Reynolds. At St.

Epilogue to the Apprentice .....................

Peter's in the Isle of Thanet ... ............. Epilogue spoken by Mr. Shuter, at Covent-

To my worthy Friend Mr. T. B. one of the

Garden, after the Play of the Conscious Lo-

People called Quakers. Written in his

vers, acted for the Benefit of the Middlesex

Garden, July 1752 ................

..........

ib. Hospital for Lying-in-Women, 1755, in the

On seeing the Picture of Miss R- G-n. Character of a Man-Midwife .................. ib.

Drawn by Mr. Varelst, of Threadneedle De Arte Critica. A Latin Version of Mr. Pope's

'Street ............

.......... ib. ! Fssay on Criticism ......

..........

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers ......... 109 | The Kite and the Rooks ..

179

The Author's Preface to his Epigoniad......... 123 | The Muse and the Shepherd .............. 180

THE EPIGONIAD.

The Grasshopper and the Glow-worm .........

Book I..

| The Ape, the Parrot, and the Jackdaw ...... 182

The Boy and the Rainbow ........................ 183

III. ...

Celia and her Mirror ...........

............ 141

............ 184

IV.

The Fishermen. Imitated from Theocritus .. 185

................... 145

Cupid and the Shepherd.........

............... 186

157

'The Swan and other Birds ........

VII. ..............................

The Lover and his friend. To the Poets,.....
..

ib.
161

.................
V IU. ......................................

The Rake and tbe Hermit.........

IX.

Phebus and the Shepherd ........................,

...... 175

189

A Dream, lu the Manner of Spenser .........

The Breeze and the Tempest.......... .......... 190

The Crow and the other Birds. Containing

FABLES.

an useful Hint to the Critics ................... 192

To the Earl of Lauderdale.....

...... 178 The Hare and the Partan .............

ib.

The young Lady and the Looking-Glass ...... ib. A Dialogue. The Author and a Friend ...... 163

POEMS OF P. WHITEHEAD.

228

221

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The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 1-99 Capid baffled .............

...... 227
The State Dunces : a Satire. Inscribed to Death and the Doctor.......

ib.
Mr. Pope, 1733 ................................. 207 | An occasional Prologue, spoken by Mr. Powell,

Manners: a Satire, 1798 ........................ 210 at the Opening of the Theatre Royal in Co-

The Gymnasiad, or boxing Match: a very vent Garden, on Monday, September 14,

short, bat very curious epic Poem, with the 1767.................................................

Prolegomena of Scriblerus Tertius and Notes Verses on converting the Chapel to a Kitchen,

variorurn .......................................... 2131 at the Seat of the Lord Donnerayle, called

Book 1. ......................................

2141

the Grove, in Hertfordshire ..................

II. .......................................

216 | Verses on the Duke of Cumberland's Victory

at Culloden, in the Year 1746 ............... ib.

Honour: a Satire, 1747.........

218 ] Verses inscribed on a Monument, called the

An Epistle to Doctor Thomson, 1755 .........

Tomb of Care, in the Garden of the late
An occasional Song, as performed by Mr. John Rich, Esq. at Cowley in Middlesex ;
Beard, in the Character of a recruiting Ser-

whereon three beautiful Boys ars covering
jeant, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Gar-

a funeral Urn with a Veil of Flowers ...... 229
den, in the Entertainment of The Fair ...... 225 | The Epitaph (in Letters of Brass, inserted by
Song, sung by Mr. Beard, in the Entertain-

a female figure representing History) on a
ment of Apollo and Daphne ................. ib. marble Pyramid of the Monument of John,

Song, sung by Mr. Beard at the annual Meet-

Duke of Argyle .................................

ing of the Vice-Presidents, Governors, &c. | Verses on the Name, P. Whitehead, sub-

of the London Hospital ......................... ib. scribed to the above Inscription, being re-

Fragment.--When Bacchus, jolly god, invites, 226 moved thence some time after the Monu-

Verses occasioned by Lady Pomfret's Present

ment was erected .....

of some antique Statues to Oxford; the Verses to Mr. Brooke, on the Refusal of a

Streets whereof were foolishly said to be Licence to bis Play of Gustavus Vasa... ...

paved with Jacobites ............ ............... ib. Song.--As Granville's soft numbers tune My-

To Dr. King ..............

......... ib. ra's just praise .......................

The Butterfly and Bee. To Flavia ...... ..... ib. To Dr. Schomberg, of Bath ...........

Verses dropt in Mr. Garrick's Temple of Epitaph, by Mr. Garrick, on Paul Whitehead,

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 253 To Miss Herring. With four Odes on the
Brambam Park. To Robert Lane, Esq. ...... 235 Seasons...... ..................................... 243
A Description of Calypso and her Grotto ...... 238 | A vernal Ode, sent to his Grace the Lord Arch-
An Epithalamic Ode. Intended for Music ... 239 bishop of Canterbury. March 12, 1754 ...
The Death of the Lark. 1738 .................. ib. Ode to Summer. By a Gentleman of Cam-
The Sparrow. From Catullus, 1738 ......... 240 bridge .........

...........
On the Death of a young Gentleman, Sep An autumnal Ode. To Mr. Hayman, the
tember, 1759 .........

ib. Painter. October, 1754 .........
An Epistle to a Friend in Yorkshire ............ Ode on Winter. By a Gentleman of Cam-
On a Lady's singing and playing upon the bridge .......

....... ib.

Harpsichord .....

An Ode to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of

On the Death of the right hon. the Earl of Canterbury .......

....... ib.

Uxbridge ..........

... ib. Aurelius : an Elegy. Sacred to the Memory .

To the right hon. the Countess of Uxbridge, of Thomas Herriog, D. D. late Lord Arch-

occasioned by the Death of the Earl, her bishop of Canterbury ........

....... 245

Husband ...

ib. On the Death of his most sacred Majesty King

To Laura, 1742 .............

George the Second .....

......... 246

Song to laura, absent. January, 1745 ..... To his most sacred Majesty, on his Accession.

A Nosegay for Laura. July, 1745 ........... A Parody on a Passage in Milton's Paradise

To Laura, absent. Noveraber, 1745 ........

Lost. Book iv.........

.... ........ ib.

To his grace Dr. Thomas Herring, Lord Arch David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan.

bishop of Canterbury, on his Sickness and Samuel, Book ii. Chapter i. .................. ib.

Recovery. Jane 25, 1753 ...

| The Picture of Old-age, paraphrased from

242

Nurse My

****....... 259

.........

......... 251

l'age

Page

the seven first Verses of the twelfth Chap- A good Name ..........

............... 256

ter of Ecclesiastes

.247 Patience .......

A good Wife. From Proverbs, Chapter xsxi. ib. Man blind to future Events ..................... ib.

Nathan's Parable, 2 Samuel, Chap. xii. ...... 248 Friendship ..................

The Song of Deborah ....

........ ib. Tyrants unhappy .................................

The Poor should not be oppressed...............

EPITAPHS.

Riches ................

On a very good Woman...........

249 | Rich and Poor equally unhappy ...............

On a young Gentleman, who died A. D. 1743, Fortune blind .........

ætat, 13. In a Church in Cheshire ......... ib. Evil Company contagious .......................

On a worthy Friend who was accomplished in Iinpudence ............ ............................

the Sister-Arts of Music and Painting ...... ib. Importunate Advice ............ ..............

On the rev. Mr. Cookson, Vicar of Leeds ... ib. The Dangers of Matrimony .....................

On Mrs. Fountayoe, Daughter of Thomas The Comforts of Matrimony .....................

Whichcot, Esq. and Wife to the Dean of The Rich and Young should marry ............

York; who died in Child-beda July, 1750, Maternal Affection ......

ætat. 19 .........

ib.

On a young Gentleman, who died for love, Power of Music ..........

1751... ........

The strictly righteous Field ....

On James Fox, Esq. 1754 .....

Love omnipotent

To a young Lady, with a Present of Books,

Know others ......

Partridges, and Snuff ......

Ignis Fatuus. Will with a Wisp ...

An Elegy on the Death of Dobbin, the Butter-

Datur Mundorum Pluralitas. By Christopher
Woman's Horse .........

.........

Smart, M. A. ........

Epithalamium on the Marriage of a Cobler

LA Voyage to the Planets, translated............

... ib.

and a Chimney-Sweeper.......

Materies gaudet Vi Inertiæ. By Christopher

The smoking Doctor's Soliloquy over his Pipe. ib.

Smart, M. A. ............................. ........ 261

Woman: a Ballad. Being a Contrast to

The Temple of Dullness, translated ............. ib.
“ 'The women all tell me I'm false to my

Mutua Oscitationum Propagatin solvi potest

lass.” ........................

mecbanice. By Christopher Sunart, M. A. 263

The Brown Jug: a Song. Imitated from the

| Mechanical Solution of the Propagation of

Latin of Hieronymus Amaltheus ............

Yawning .................................

A Pair of Spectacles. Prom Bourne ......... 252

To William Dixon, Esq. ............

The Stage Coach. From the same ............ ib.

The Preface to the Description of May......

Thank you for Nothing ...........

Some Account of Gawin Douglas ..............

An Eulogy on Sir Isaac Newton. Translated

Gawin Douglas his singular leroit Proloug of

from the Latin of Dr. Halley.................

Claudian's old Man, who never went out of

the Description of May ..........

| 4 Description of May, from Gawin Douglas,

the Suburbs of Verona ............. ..........

Bishop of Dunkeld. Modernized ............

Archimedes's Sphere. From Claudian.........

On Menander. Imitated from a Greek Epi-

| Gawin Douglas his eloquent Description of

Wynter, wyth hys grete Stormes and Tem-

gram in the Anthologia ........... .........

pestis .......

| A Description of Winter, from Gawin Douglas,

FRAGMENTS OF MEXANDER. TRANSLATED FROM THE

Bishop of Dunkeld ......

ib.

GREEK

Glossary to May and Winter

Some Account of Menander ........

ib. / Part of Sat, vi. Book ii, of Horace, translated.

Worship due to the Deity ........................ 254 Beginiog at, Perditur hæc inter misero lux,

Submission .........

ib. non sine votis, &c. .............................. 275

The acceptable Sacrifice ........................

ib. A Parody on the city and country Mouse ... ib.
The Miseries of old Age ....

ib. | Horace, Epist. v. Book i. imitated. To Jobn

Virtue only is Nobility ........................... 255 Hawkesworth, Esq .............................. 276

The Omnipotence of Gold ........................ ib. A Passage from Petronius, translated ......... jb.
The Misery and Folly of Man ................... ib. Against Life. From the Greck of Posidippus. ib.
Man unbappy, compared with other Creatures. ib. / For Life. From the Greek of Metrodorus ... ib.
The Origin of Man .................................

ib. On Occasion of the Pence ..........

The Pleasures of Solitude ........................ ib. On a country Vicar carrying his Wife behind

Sorrow familiar to all Men ..................... ib. him, to visit his Parishioners. By Mr.

Good and Evil blended ...........................

256 of Brazen Nose College ........................ 278

Content .................. .

ib. The Vicar's Reply. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. 279

Banish Care.......................................... ib. | To Dr. Redman, who sent the Author a Hare,

Temple of Reason ........................

ib. and promised to sup with him. By the

The Man of Reason....

ib. Rev. Dr. Cowper ........

Good Sense .............

........

ib. I Imitated by Mri Fawkes..........

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers........... 283 | To Lady F , on her Marriage ............... 298

On the Death of Edward Lovibond, Esq. By Song.--No gandy Rubens ever dare ............ ib.

Miss G ..............................

285 Verses written after passing through Findon,

Advertisement ............

......

Sussex, 1768. Addressed to the rev. Mr.

The World. Number LXXXII .................. ib. Woodeson, of Kingston upon Thames ...... 299
The Tears of old May-day........................ 286 To'a Lady .........

Dedication to the rer. Mr. Woodeson, of King Stanzas. The bird of midnight swell'd ber

ston upon Thames, and the Ladies of his

throat ............

Neighbourhood ............................... 287 To a young Lady, who oljected to sup with a
Julia's printed Letter to Lord - ......... ib. Party of both Sexes that met at a Coffee-house ib.
On rebuilding Combe-Neville, near Kingston, A Dream ............

300
Surrey, once the seat of the famous king-

The Mulbo

ib.
making Earl of Warwick, and late in the To a Lady .........

301
Possession of the Family of Harvey ......... 289 On a very fine Lady ........
On Lady Pomfret's presenting the University On an Asiatic Lady. ............

of Oxford with her Collection of Statues ... 290 | To the same, on her Dress ...........

On rural Sports ............

To the same.... ....

Ode to Captivity. Written in the last War... 292 On reading the foregoing Verses. By Miss G-
Imitation from Ossian's Poems. Lately pub Reply to Miss G ........

lished by the Title of Fingal, &C........ ib. 1 Seng.-Hang my lyre upon the willow......... 303

Ode to Youth .......

293 Laura's Answer. By Miss G- ..........

294 To Laura, on her receiving a mysterious

To Miss K

| Letter from a Methodist Divine.............

To Miss K

ib. To the same. On Politics ...............

To Miss K

.......................

... 295 To Laura.--Farewell to the rose ...........

To Miss K

ib. Song to ****.-What! bid me seek another fair, ib

To Miss K - P- , with Anson's Voyage. ib. On Men being deprived, from Custom and De-

The Complaint of Cambria. To Miss K-

licacy, of enjoying social Friendship with

P- , setting to Music, and singing English

the Fair-sex .......

Verses, Done into English from the Welsh To a young Lady, fainting at the News of her

Original .........

ib. Friend's Misfortunes ......

On a Present to the Author, of two Impressions | On the Death of an Infant ......

from a fine antique Seal of the Head of To Miss N-m, written at Brighthelmstone...
Alexander; the one by Lady P , on Pa. To the Mistresses R-s, written at Bright-

per; the other by Miss J- P- , in Wax, 296 helmstone...........

On the Subject of the Monument in Arcadia. ib. Verses written at Brighthelmstone ............

On the same

..... ib. To Miss G . From Brighthelmstone....

Hitchin Convent. A Tale .......... .... ib. | Answer to the foregoing Verses, by Miss G-
To a young Lady, a very good Actress ... 297 | On the Death of a young Gentleman........
To an accomplished Lady. In the Manner of Inscription for a Fountain .....

... ib.

Waller ..........

On the converting the late Mr. Woodeson's

Address to the Thames

House at Kingston into a Poor-house, and

To Mrs. B- , reading Julia with Tears, dur-

cutting down the great Walk of bigh Trecs

ing a hard Frost .....

.... ib. 1 before it ......

tarne

.................................

.....

...... 398

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POEMS OF HARTE.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers ............ 312 To the right honourable Lady Hertford, upon

To the right honourable Charles Earl of Peter- i the Birch of Lord Beauchamp ................ 327

borough and Monmouth ........................ 319

.......... 319 The Army of Adrastus and his Allies, march-

Advertisement .......................... ......... ib. / ing from Argos to the Siege of Tbebes. From

An Essay on Painting. To the right honoura-

the 4th Thebiad of Statius..................... 328

ble Thomas Earl of Pembroke ............... ib. | A Simile upon a set of Tea-drinkers....

Acontius to Cydippe. Fromn Ovid............... 324 The same. Diversified in ancient Metre ...... ib.

Part of Pindar's first Pythian Ode, para A Soliloquy, occasioned by the Chirping of a

phrased............................................ 326 Grasshopper..............

The Episode of Orpbeus and Eurydice, trans The Story of Arethusa. Translated from the

lated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil...... 327/ 5th Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ........

.....

369

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Angerianus de Calia. (Epig. 40.) ............ 329 Christ's Parable of the Sowor ............ 358

Cupid mistaken. From the Sports of Cupid, Introduction .............

.........

359

written by Angerianus. Imitated and en-

Parable....

............................

. ib.

larged .........

.............. ib. Interpretation ..............

360

To a young Lady, with Mr. Fenton's Miscellany. ib. The Ascetic; or, Thomas a Kempis: a Vision 361

To Mr. Pope....

330 The Meditation of Thomas a Kempis ......... 363

The sixth Thebaid of Statius. Translated into Contentment, Industry, and Acquiescence un-
English, with Notes ......

ib. der the Divine Will. An Ode, written in the

Notes upon the sixth Thebaid of Statius ...... 540 Alpine Parts of Caruiola, 1749 ............... 368

The Vision of Death ............................

DIVINE POEMS.

Advertisement ....................................... ib.

Introduction .............

Dedication .........
346

.......

The Courtier and Prince.

347

Psalm the civth, parapbrased...........

A Fable ............ 376

Psalm the cviith, paraphrased .........

The enchanted Region; or, mistaken Pleasures 379

To my Soul. From Chancer ............. 348

Eulogius; or, the charitable Mason. An his-

torical Fable..

381

An Essay on Satire, particularly on the Dun

Introduction ..........

ciad. Printed 1730 ........
An Essay on Reason .......

Macarius; or, the Confessor. An Epistle to

................

To the Prince of Orange, on bis passing through

the rev. Dr. Robert Hort, Canon of Windsor 390

Boetius: or, the upright Statesman, a supposed

Oxford in his Return from Bath ...............

Epistle from Boetius to his Wife, Rusticiana. 399

The Amaranth, or, religious Poems, consisting Religious Melancholy, an emblematical Elegy 398

of Fables, Visions, Emblems, &c. ............ 358 Meditations on Christ's Death and Passion.

The amaranthine Crown described by Milton . ib. An Emblem ....

402

Preface......

ib.

The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers............ 407 | Theodosius to Constantia, 1760 .................. 430
To the rev. Mr. J. Langhorne, on reading his Elegy, 1760.—The eye of nature never rests

Visions of Fancy, &c. By Miss Whately, 415 from care .........

Sonnet to Mr. Langhorne. By John Scott, Esq. ib. Inscription on the Door of a Study ............

To the hon. Charles Yorke.........

ib. To Lord Granby .....

Proemium. Written in 1766 ...... ............. 416 Monody, 1759.-- Ah scenes belov'd ! ah con.
Studley Park. To the rev. Mr. Parrer ......

scious shades ......
Genius and Valour: a pastoral Poem. Written To Mrs. ******, in Tears for the Death of a
in honour of a Sister-Kingdom, 1763 ...... 419 Priend, 1762

To Mrs. Gillman ................ ...........

THE VISIONS OF FANCY. IN FOUR ELEGIES.

Fragment of a Poem written at Clare-Hall on

Elegy I. .........

the King's Accession, 1760..........

Cæsar's Dream, before his Invasion of Britain,

III. .......................

1758 ................................

IV. ...............

Inscriptionin a Temple of Society ...........

A Poem to the Memory of Mr. Handel. Writ-

loscription in a sequestered Grotto, 1763, and
ten in 1760 ......... ......................... ib.