HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE

EDWARD S. HAWES ESTATE 1943

Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

The Beasts' Confession

Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Book I

Book IV

Moral Essays, I

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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated. To

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

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ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:

Jenny and Peggy

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou w.re my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

A Snow Scene, from Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'.

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from 'Autumn'

To her I love

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

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Book IV

Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Edmund W. Gosse 189

Extract from The Chase, Book I

EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765).

Extract from The Last Day, Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

JOHN BYROM (1691-1763)

The Nimmers

Careless Content

On the Origin of Evil

Epigrams.

RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)
Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost •

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)
Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and Fall of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747
Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

JOHN WESLEY (1703–1791), Charles Wesley (1708–1788)

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251

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Suffering and Sympathy (from The Schoolmistress)

269

George Saintsbury 271

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

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