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SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; AND
COBBETT AND MORGAN, PALL-MALL.

1801.

CONTENTS.

IMITATIONS, &c.

PAOL

The Squire's Tale modernized, Part I. and II.

3,17

On the Rights and Duties of the Rich; an Imitation

of the Sixth Satire of Persius, addressed to the

Rev. Mr. Mason, 1793

31

The Art of English Poetry; being an Imitation, with

Notes, of Horace's Epistle to the Pisos

43

TRANSLATIONS FROM PETRARCH.

PART I. POEMS DURING THE LIFE OF LAURA.

Sannet

245

to Stephen Colonna the Elder

246

on planting a Laurel, near a Rivulet, in honour

of Laura, in a spot which she frequented. 248

Ballad

249

Sonnet

250

Sestina

251

Sonnet on sending to a Friend a pair of Pigeons,

which, being then frequently employed in field sports,

he had caught with nets

253

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256

Sonnet travelling through the Forest of Arden 254

Sonnet

255

on the recovery of Laura. from a dangerous

illness

Ode to Stephen Colonna the younger, made Senator of

Rome for five years

257

Madrigal

263

Sonnet. On a Miniature of Laura, painted for Petrarch

by Simon, a Disciple of Giotto

264

The same subject

265

Sonnet

266

His reason for loving Laura at thirty, when

her beauty was impaired

267

On Petrarch's picking up a glove Laura had

dropped at an assembly, and which she hastily ree

covered from him

268

Sonnet

269

Ode written at Laura's Favourite Fountain

271

Sonnet embarking on the Po, in bis way to Verona 275

travelling homewards from Italy, on the Banks

of the Rhone

277

on the Grief of Laura, supposed for the Death

of her Mother

278

on a distinction shewn to Laura by a Prince,

supposed to be Charles son of the King of Bohemia,

and afterwards the Emperor Charles the Fourth

279