WORKS

OF THE

BRITISH POETS,

WITII

LIVES OF THE AUTHORS.

EDITED BY

ROBERT WALSH, Jn.

VOL. XXX.

GOLDSMITH, LANGHORNE, SMART.

PHILADELPHIA :

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL F. BRADFORD,

POR

JOHN LAVAL.

William Drowni, Printev.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX.

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SELECT POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

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Live of GOLDSMITH,

3

The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society, 19

The Deserted Village,

37

The Hermit; a ballad,

53

The Haunch of Venison,

61

Retaliation,

65

Postcript,

71

The Double Transformation,

73

The Logicians Refuted,

76

A New Simile,

78

Dascription of an Author's Bed-chamber, 80

The Clown's Reply,

81

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,

An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary

Blaize,

83

On a beautiful Youth, struck Blind by Light-

ning,

84

The Gift,

ib.

Stanzas on Woman,

85

Lines addressed to Dr. Goldsmith,

86

Song,

ib,

Song,

87

From the Oratorio of The Captivity,

ib,

Song,

88

Stanzas on the taking of Quebec,

ib,

Epitaph on the Rev. Dr. Parnel,

89

Epitaph on Edward Purdon,

ib.

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A Prologue,

90

Prologue to the Tragedy of Zobeide,

91

Epilogue, spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes,

92

Epilogue to the comedy of The Sisters, 93

Epilogue to the comedy of She Stoops to

Conquer,

95

An Epilogue, spoken and sung by Mrs. Bulk.

ley and Miss Catley,

Epilogue intended for Mrs. Bulkley,

99

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The Sunflower and the lvy,

115

Proemium,

116

To the hon. Charles Yorke,

117

The Laurel and the Reed,

122

The Garden Rose and the Wild Rose,

124

The Violet and the Pansy,

127

The Queen of the Meadow and the Crown Im-

perial,

130

The Wall Flower,

132

The Tulip and the Myrtle,

. 135

The Bee Flower,

. 137

The Wilding and the Broom,

140

The Misletoe and the Passion Flower,

142

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ENLARGEMENT OF THE MIND.

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Epistle I. to General Craufurd,

Epistle II. to Williain Langhorne, M. A.

Precepts of Conjugal Happiness,

The Origin of the Veil, .

145

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