The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson

Thus verfe will raise him to the victor's bays;
And verse, that rais'd him, fhall refound his praise.
Ye tender Beauties, be my witness too,
If Song can charm, and if my Song be true.
With sweet experience oft a Fair may find
Her paffions mov'd by paffions well defign'd;
And then the longs to meet a gentle swain,
And longs to love, and to be lov'd again.
And if by chance an amorous youth appears,
With pants and blushes fhe the courtship hears;
And finds a tale that must with theirs agree,
And he's Septimius, and his Acme * she :
Thus loft in thought her melted heart she gives,
And the rais'd Lover by the Poet lives.

*With fuch a husband, fuch a wife,
"With Acme and Septimius' life,"

is the conclufion of Cowley's beautiful imitation of Catullus. On these lines an excellent Prelate has obferved, that, to the honour of Cowley's morals and good taste, by a small deviation from his original, he has converted a loofe love-poem into a sober epithalamium; we have all the grace, and, what is more, all the warmth of Catullus, without his indecency. N.

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PARNELL's POE M S.

HESIOD, or the Rise of Woman

Song
Anacreontic

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style
The Vigil of Venus

Battle of the Frogs and Mice

To Mr. Pope

Part of the Firft Canto of the Rape of the
Lock tranflated

Health, an Eclogue

The Flies, an Eclogue

An Elegy to an Old Beauty