The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ..... 271 Book VII.
393
An Inquiry into the Origin of Paradise Lost,
VIII.
398
by Mr. Todd
517
IX.
403
X.
412
COMMENDATORY VERSES ON MILTON.
XI.
421
XII.
428
In Paradisum Amissam summi Poetæ Johannis
Appendix to Paradise Lost, containing Plans
Miltoni. By Dr. Samuel Barrow
343
of similar Subjects, intended for Tragedies
On Paradise Lost. By Andrew Marvel ib.
by Milton: from bis own MS. in Trinity
To Mr. John Milton, on his Poem entitled
College, Cambridge....
454
Paradise Lost. By F. C. 1680
344
By Drydcu
ib.
PARADISE REGAINED.
From an Account of the Greatest English
Poets
ib. | Book I.
435
Address to Great Britain. From Thomson's
II.
440
Summer
345 III.
444
Ode to the Muse. From Akenside
ib. IV.
448
Dalton's Prologue to Comus, 1758....
ib. Samson Agonistes. A Dramatic Poem 453
Dr. Johnson's Prologue to the Mask of Comus,
Appendix to Samson Agonistes, containing
acted at Dury-Lane Theatre, April 5, 1750, Plans of other Subjects, intended for Trage-
for the Benefit of Milton's Grand-daugh- dies by Milton: from his own MS. in Trinity
College, Cambridge..
468
From Gray's Progress of Poesy
ib.
Lycidas.
472
Ode on the Poetical Character. From Collins. ib.
L'Allegro
475
Ode to Memory. By Mason
346 II Penseroso ......
476
From the Rev. Thomas Wharton's Address to
Arcades. Part of a Mask
477
the present Queen on her Marriage
ib,
Song I. Look, nymphs and shepherds, look. ib.
From the Description of Night in the same
II, O'er the smooth enamellid green... 478
Author's Pleasures of Melancholy
ib.
III. Nymphs and shepherds, dance no
From Hayley's Essay on Epic Poetry, Epist.
ib.
III......
ib. Dedication to Comus ......
479
From Cowper's Table Talk..
ib.
The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Henry
Cowper's' Author's Task, B. III....
ib.
Wootton, to the Author, upon his Poem.
From the Poetical Works of William Preston,
Comus
ib.
Esq. Dublin, 1793.
ib.
Account of Ludlow Castle, by Mr. Todd 480
From Poems and Plays by Mrs West, 1799.. 347 | Origin of Comus, by Mr. Warton
482
Comus. A Mask, presented at Ludlow Castle,
PARADISE LOST.
1634, before John Earl of Bridgewater, then
President of Wales ...................
Book 1.
349
485
II.
III.
364
IV.
3770 1. To the Nightingale .... ...... 500
V.
379
II, Donna leggiadra, ib cui bel nome ho-
VI.
386