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THE CONTENTS.
The Misery of a Town-Life, and the Happiness of
a Country-Life; exemplified in the Story of the
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Town-Mouse and Country-Mouse
64
An Elegy written in a Country Church-yard
Hymn to Adversity
73
Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College
74
Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub
of Gold Fishes
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ibid.
86
87
Affectation of Delicacy ridiculed
88
The Emptiness of Riches
On Procrastination
89
On the Being of a God
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90
The Ignorance of Man, with regard to the general
Laws of the Universe, a Reason why he should be
contented with his present State
Our Happiness partly owing to our Ignorance of future
Events, partly to our Hope of a future State
The Unreasonableness of our Complaints against Pro-
Reason instructed by Instinct in the Invention of Arts,
and in Forms of Society
The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness
does not consist in the Superabundance of these, but
Characters are given according to the Rank of Men in
the World
109
Examples of the Strength of the ruling Passion in the
Hour of Death
Advice to the Fair Sex
The Man of Ross
The Parting of Hector and Andromache
Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music; an Ode on
St. Cecilia's Day
1:9
Description of a Battle, illustrated by a sublime Com-
parison
123
The first Onset of a Battle, illustrated by a noble Com-
To the King on his Navy
On the Invention of Letters
The Answer
The Enthusiast; or the Lover of Nature
Ode to Fancy
124
125
131
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
The Wish
Elegy to a young Nobleman, leaving the University
Sheep-Shearing; Song on that Occasion; Sheep-
Shearing Feast and Merriments,
A Harvest-Scene, with the Story of Palemon and
Lavinia
179
A Man perishing in the Snow, with Reflections on the
Miseries of Human Life
The Subject of Paradise Lost-Invocation of the Muse
-Man's Disobedience - Loss of Paradise-Satan
Satan lying on the burning Lake
Description of Satan's Shield and Spear
Pandemonium
An Address to Light
Satan's Speech to the Sun
Satan's Approach to Paradise -That Place described
Satan's first Sight of Adam and Eve
Eve gives an Account of what first befel her after her
Creation
A Description of Night
Eve describes her Happiness in Adam's Company
Rencounter between Gabriel and Satan in Paradise
The Morning Hymn of Adam and Eve
Raphael's Descent from Heaven to Paradise
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The Creation of the World described
The first Appearance of the Sun and Moon
The Deity resolves to create Man
Adam gives an Account of his Condition and Senti-
ments immediately after his Creation
205
Adam's Description of Eve
206
Eve parts with Adam-The Serpent finds her; and is
so strongly affected with her Beauty and Innocence,
that he almost lays aside his hellish Design
Adam's Lamentation over Eve, upon her eating the
forbidden Fruit; and his Resolution to share the
To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of King George I. 218
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V. to his Soldiers
Labour recommended
Country Workhouses proposed-A Description of one
-Good Effects of Industry
A wise King, and an impartial Judge, instanced in the
Conduct of Henry V. and Lord Chief Justice Gas-
coigne
The Vanity of Power, and the Misery of Kings; a
Dialogue between Scroop and Richard II.
The Upbraidings of a Father, and the Piety of a Son;
a Dialogue between King Henry IV. and Prince
Henry
Undaunted Courage in the Midst of Danger.
The World compared to a Stage
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225
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236
Honour ought to be conferred on Merit only
Mercy
Music
:
A Father's Advice to his Son, going to travel
Hamlet on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost
241
Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death
Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul
On Flattery, and Firmness of Mind
The Happiness of a Shepherd's Life
The Vicissitudes of Life
Reputation
Banishment; Consolation under it
Thoughts ineffectual to moderate Afflictions
England
258
The Sun rising after a dark Night
259
The Cares of Royalty
Submission to Heaven, our Duty
The Vanity of Trust in Man
Queen Margaret upbraiding Queen Anne, the Consort
of Richard III.
260
On Dreams
Description of an Apothecary and his Shop
Adversity the Test of real Merit
261
262
The Character of Troilus
Solitude preferred to a Court-Life, and the Advantages
Advice