PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON ; i 1810. CONTENTS. Page CHE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson 3 To a Gentleman of seventy, who married a 9 The forty-third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. A Habakkuk, Chap. III. Paraphrased. An Ode Paraphrase. ib. written in 1710, as an Exercise. 13 The Conclusion of an Epilogue to Mr. South- To Belinda, on her Sickness and Recovery 14 ern's last Play, called Money the Mistress. 31 To Belinda, on her Apron embroidered with The Parting, a Song, set by Dr. Tudway, Pro. 32 Part of the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her Melancholy: an Ode. Occasioned by the The Story of Talus, from the fourth Book of Apollonius Rhodius, V. 1629... Daphnis and Lycidas : a Pastoral ib. From the eleventh Book of the Iliads of Ho- The First Ode of Horace translated ........ 18 In the Style of Milton......... An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton, Au- To Mrs. Eliz. M-t, on trer Picture, 1716 34 thor of Mariamne, a Tragedy, 1726......... ib. | Prologue to Mr. Penton's excellent Tragedy, ib. On the Seat of War in Flanders, &c. 20 Monsieur Maynard imitated. To the right To the right honourable Lord Charles Corn- honourable the Lord Cornwallis.. The Rose-bud. To the right honourable the The Coquette ib. The Widow and Virgin Sisters, being a Letter The Coy: an Ode. ib. On the Death of my dear friend, Mr. Elijah ib. afterwards Lady Cornwallis, on her Picture To Thomas Marriot, Esq. A Poem on Death 37 To Mr. Pope, on his Works, 1726........... ib. The Complaint. Cælia to Damon Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer. Battle of the Gods and Titans. From the 24 Theogony of Hesiod, with a Description of A Pastoral, to a young Lady, upon her leaving, and return to, the Country 28 | The Love of Jason and Medea. From the ib. third Book, verse 743, of Apollonius Rho- To a lady, playing with a Snake ...... To a Lady of thirty ib. Epistola ad Amicum Rusticantem. Scripta On the Birth-day of Mr. Robert Trefusis, being Vere inuente Cantab, 1709 three Years old, March 22, 1710-11..... ... ib. Sixteen Odes of Anacreon..................... 4447 dius ..... The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson Dr. Warburton's Advertisement to the Octavo 51 | Messiah : a sacred Eclogue. In imitation of 129 Windsor Porest 151 133 | Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 137 Two Chorusses to the Tragedy of Brutus 156 Ode.-The dying Christian to his Soul......... ib. ib, 146 Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 172 ib, ......... Spring.--The First Pastoral MISCELLANILS. 177 On receiving from the right honourable the Lady Frances Shirley, a Standish and two 180 Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Morti- TheWife of Bath, her Prologue. From Chaucer. 192 Epistle to James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of The First Book of Statius luis Thebais T'he Pable of Dryope. From Ovid's Meta- Epistle to Mr. Jervas, with Mr. Dryden's 207 Translation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting ... ib. 208 Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Epistle to the same, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation, 1715.... ib. The Basset-Table, an Eclogue Waller.-Of a Lady singing to her Lute ib. (Verbatim from Boileau Answer to a Question of Mrs. Howe Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Earl of Rochester.-On Silence. ib. Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, ib. in 1733,. when he was old, blind, and in great Distress, a little before his Death ib. Dr. Swift.—The Happy Life of a Country Prologue to Sophonisba 281 ib. Worm-Powder ib. ib. Song, by a Person of Quality, written in the 215 On a certain Lady at Court On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marble, Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals .. ib. To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day 220 To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-day, 225 To Lady Mary Wortley Montague 229 The fourth Epistle of the first Book of Ho- , Moral Essays, in Five Epistles : race's Epistles .... ib. Fipigram on Mrs. Tofts, a bandsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very covetous and II. Of the Characters of Women 233 Epigram on one who made long Epitaphs 284 239 To Sir Godtrey Kneller, on his painting for me V. To Mr. Addison, occasioned by the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules ib. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue A Dialogue, between Pope and Craggs 242 Epigra! engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to his Royal Highness ... ib. SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. Epigram, occasioned by an Invitation to Court ib. Second Book, Sat. i. To Mr. Fortescue ...... 246 On an old Gate erected in Chiswick Gardens . ib. Second Book, Sat. ii. To Mr. Bethel 348 Fragment.-What are the falling rills, the pen- First Book, Ep. i. To Lord Bolingbroke. 250 First Book, Ep. vi. To Mr. Murray... 253 Verses left by Mr. Pope, on his lying in the Second Book, Ep. i. To Augustus same Bed which Wilmot the celebrated Earl of Rochester slept in at Adderbury, then belonging to the Duke of Argyle . THE SATIRES OF JOHN DONNE, DEAN OP ST. PAUL'S, Verses to Mr. C. St. James's Place....... ib. ib. On Charles Earl of Dorset, in the Church of Epilogue to the Satires. In Two Dialogues. Withyam in Sussex..... ib. ............ 271 On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, only Son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt, in the Church of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, 1720 ...... ib. First Book, Ep. vii. In the manner of Swift.. 273 | On James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey. ib. 274 Intended for Mr. Rowe, in Westminster Abbey. ib. Book iv. Ode 1. To Venus 275 On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her IMITATIONS OF HORACE. To Sir ihomas Egerton, Knight, Lord Keeper A Description of Beauty. Translated out of 549 To the Lord Henry Howard, one of his Ma- To the Angel Spirit of the most excellent Sir To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumber- To the right reverend Fatber in God, James 529 Montague, Lord Bishop of Winchester, &c. 551 To the Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford 530 | A Defence of Rhyme ib. To Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton 532 A Letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius ... 567 571 bis Boat two Women (of whom he loved The Prologue the one that disdained him, and scorned Songs from the same ................... the other who affected him) was by Com- Ode.- Now each creature joys the other ... 573 mandment from Neptune to cast out one of Ulysses and the Syren them, to appease the Rage of the Tem- Dedication of the Queen's Arcadia. A Pas- toral Tragi-Comedy 574 ib. In the Vision of the Twelve Goddesses ... ib. Masophilus: containing a general Defence of Song from the same 533 Dedication of the Tragedy of Cleopatra ib. .................................. ib. b. 2 |