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London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, MDCCLXVII.
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The Editor's chief intention in making the following Collection was to bring into one point of view the best pieces which have appeared since the conclusion of Dodsley's collection; and he will venture to affirm, that whatever be the merit of that entertaining miscellany, this does not fall short any ways of it, as some of the volumes in that are made up from the publications of a few years; whereas this contains whatever has been most applauded in a course of twenty. But he has not confined himself to that period only, but inserted many pieces, in his opinion, of great merit, which the inattention of the public, or the obscurity of the publication, had long suffered to remain unnoticed. To these are added many originals by writers of acknowledged merit; among which those of Mr. Mendez, author of the Chaplet, and several admired poems in Dodsley's Miscellany, make no mean figure. Mr. Mendez was reckoned among the most agreeable poets of his time, and, perhaps he was the only one that was ever worth one hundred thousand pounds.
An Elegy on the Death of a Lady. By W. Mason, M.A. 1
Oriental Eclogues. By Mr. William Collins 7
Eclogue I. Selim, or the Shepherd's Moral ibid.
An Ode to Fear. By the same. 21
The Passions. An Ode to Music. By the same 21
Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune. A
Satire. By Mr. Scott of Trinity-college Cambridge 29
To Pleasure. An Ode. By the same 42
Albin and the Daughter of Mey. By the late Mr.
Jerom Stone 47
Edwin and Angelina. A Ballad. By Dr. Goldsmith 55
The Cit's Country-Box, 1757. By Robert Lloyd, M. A. 62
The Actor. By the same 67
William and Margaret. By David Mallet, Esq; 77
A Fragment. By the same 81
Zephir; or the Stratagem. By the same 84
Edwin and Emma. By the same 92
A Prayer for Indifference. By Mrs. Greville 96
Ode on the Duke of York's second Departure from
England. By the Author of the Shipwreck 99
To Sickness. An Elegy. By Mr. Delap 107
Verses to the People of England, 1758. By W. White-
Head, Esq; Poet-Laureat 110
To William Shenstone, Esq; the Production of half
an Hour's Leisure [no auth] 115
A Song. Written to a Lady [no auth] 117
To a Lady before Marriage. By the late Mr. Tickel.
Not published in his Works 118
Prologue upon Prologues. Written by Mr. Garrick 121
Mr. Foote's Address to the Public, after a Prosecu-
tion against him for a Libel 123
Extract from Mr. Whitehead's Charge to the Poets 125
The Elm and the Vine. A Fable [no auth] 129
Prologue to the Englishman at Bourdeaux [no auth] 131
Epiplogue [no auth] 132
An Ode on St. Caecilia's Day. By B. Thornton, Esq; 134
Advice to the Marquis of Rockingham. By an old Courtier 139
La Liberta. Translated from Metastasio 140
Bryan and Pereene. A West-Indian Ballad [no auth] 144
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. An old
Ballad. [no auth] 147
My Mind to me a Kingdom is. An old Ballad [no auth] 148
Cupid's Pastime. An old Sonnet [no auth] 150
Winifreda 153
Admiral Hosier's Ghost. By Mr. Glover, Author of
Leonidas 154
The Shepherd's Resolution. An old Ballad. By
George Wither 158
The Stedfast Shepherd. By the same 159
Autumn. By Mr. Brerewood 162
The Pin. By Mr. Woty 165
A Present to a young lady with a Pair of Stockings [no auth] 167
A Dialogue between a Poet and his Servant. By the
late Mr. Christopher Pitt 170
A Parody on the City and Country Mouse [no auth] 175
The Recantation. An Ode [no auth] 177
Verses written on a Pedestal, &c. [no auth] 180
Song [no auth] 183
The Lady and the Linnet. A Tale [no auth] 184
The Genius of Briatin. An Iambic Ode [no auth] 191
Hope. A Pastoral Ballad [no auth] 195
Ode to Sensibility [no auth] 196
Thanks to thee, Nymph, whose powerful hand
From dulness set me free,
Thy
praises I'll for ever sing,
Sweet Sensibility.
Thy touch, so gentle and
benign,
Revives the torpid heart,
Thou pleasure canst from pain refine,
To
joys new joy impart.
By thee the gaudy rainbow shows
More beauteous to
the eye,
By thee more sweetly smells the rose,
And boasts a brighter
dye.
By thee I tast the luscious sweets,
Of Cloe's nectar'd kiss,
By
thee I laugh, or cheerful sing,
And seize each transient bliss.
When
Cloe tunes her liquid voice,
Or tries soft music's art,
By thee the
sounds melodious pierce,
Like lightning, to the heart.
By thee the
poet's charming lays
Our various passions move,
Now fire the soul with
rage, or melt
To pity, or to love.
By thee the poet's charming lays
Our
various passions move,
By thee he shares the feast of wit,
Or wit
himself indites.
With thee we taste the joys of wine,
Of friendship, and
of love,
When thou art gone we lonely pine,
Or melancholic rove.
Petrarch and Laura. An Epigrammatic Tale [no auth] 198
To Winter. By Mr. Woty 199
An Epistle of Mr. de Voltaire. From the French 202
The Winter's Walk. By Samuel Johnston [sic.], L. L. D. 208
Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By the same 209
The Poor Man's Prayer [no auth] ibid. [these "ibids" appear in the page number column, and mean nothing more than "same page."]
An Epitaph, written by Mr. Smith, on his Wife 214
Verse to Mr. Dodsley. By Richard Berringer, Esq; 215
Mr. Dodsley's Answer 216
The Wish [no auth] 217
*A Song. By Dr. Delany. His Name, by Mistake is not put down at the Head of the Poem 219(1)
On Mr. Walpole's House at Strawberry-Hill. By Miss M. 223
To the Authoress of some Lines on Strawberry-Hill.
By the Hon. Horace Walpole 225
To Apollo making Love. From Mons. Fontenelle.
By Thomas Tickell, Esq; 226
The Thirteenth Book of Virgil. Written by Maphoeus Vejius. Translated by Moses Mendez, Esq; 227
The Author's Account of his Journey to Ireland. By the same 257
The Answer. By Mr. Ellis 264
To Mr. S. Tucker. By Mr. Mendez 267
The Winter-Solstice. By Dr. Akenside 274
The Poet and his Patron. By Mr. Moore 278
The Wolfe, Sheep, and Lamb [no auth] 281
The Tears of Scotland. Written in 1746 [no auth] 285
Caesar's Dream before his Invasion of Britain. By
Mr. Langhorne 288
The Eagle and Robin Red-Breast. By Mr. Archibald Scott 291
Isis. An Elegy. By Mr. Mason 294
The Nun. An Elegy [no auth] 299
The Gift: To Iris. By Dr. Goldsmith 305
The Rookery [no auth] 306
A Receipt to make L'Eau de Vie. By the Late
Mr. Charles King 308
Day. A Pastoral. By Mr. Cunningham 310
Content. A Pastoral. By the same 316
Corydon. A Pastoral. By the same 317
Melody. By the same 319
(1)["*" signals a footnote given at the end of the index:]*** Notwithstanding the Care of the Editor, the Song of Winifrida (inserted in Dodsley's Collection) has crept in here; but as it takes up only a single Page, it was thought unnecessary to cancel it. [This must mean that they have tried not to include any of the poetry already published in Dodsley's collections.]
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