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222

Pago

From Cymon and Iphigenia

183

From the Flower and the Leaf

186

Religio Laici

190

JOHN POMFRET.

The Choice

195

THOMAS PARNELL.

A Night-Piece on Death

199

The Hermit

202

Piety, or the Vision

208

Hymn to Contentment

211

JOHN PHILLIPS.

The Splendid Shilling :

214

JOSEPH ADDISON.

A Letter from Italy

218

Paraphrase on Psalm xxiii.

222

An Ode

MATTHEW PRIOR.

The Chameleon

224

Protogenes and Apelles

225

To the Hon. Charles Montague, Esq.

228

JOHN GAY.

A Welcome from Greece. To Mr. Pope

229

THOMAS TICKELL.

Colin and Lucy

234

To the Earl of Warwick on the Death of Mr. Addison 236

ALEXANDER POPE.

The Messiah

239

Ode on Solitude

242

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 243

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

245

Epilogue to the Satires

256

Epistle to Robert earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer 263

JONATHAN SWIFT.

On Poetry

264

THOMAS WARTON.

Retirement

. 275

ROBERT BLAIR.

From “ The Grave"

276

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JAMES THOMSON.

The Castle of Indolence

ISAAC WATTS.

Few Happy Matches

AMBROSE PHILLIPS.

A Fragment of Sappho

WILLIAM COLLINS.

Ode

Ode to Evening

The Passions

JOHN DYER.

Grongar Hill

EDWARD YOUNG.

Uncertainty of Human Happiness

Complaint for Narcissa

MARK AKENSIDE.

From the Pleasures of Imagination

DAVID MALLETT.

William and Margaret

WILLIAM SHENSTONE.

Ode to Memory

CHARLES WESLEY.

Hymn of Praise

Communion with God

THOMAS CHATTERTON.

Mynstrelle's Song

TOBIAS SMOLLETT.

Ode to Independence

JOHN CUNNINGHAM.

May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen

JOHN LANGHORNE.

Owen of Carron.

THOMAS GRAY.

Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College

The Progress of Poesy

Hymn to Adversity

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

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