Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And ...

important and heroic action. The ODE to celebrate the exploits of great men, in order to excite a general imitation in others. TRAGEDY, to inspire us with a detestation of guilt, by painting the fatal consequences that follow it; and with a veneration for virtue, by representing the rewards and just praises that attend it. COMEDY and SATIRE, to correct whilst they divert us, and wage implacable war with vice and folly. ELEGY, to weep over the tombs of such as deserve to be lamented; and PASTORAL, to sing the inno, cence and pleasures of rural life.

To promote such desirable ends, the study of Poetry has ever met with the sanction and encouragement of men the most eminent for their wisdom and virtue: an

to be feared that those whose imaginations are not

enlivened by the charms of Poetry, must either have their affections depraved, or be naturally insensible of the exquisite pleasure resulting from the proper exercise of them.

To allure those who are inattentive to the excellence of virtue, and direct their thoughts to the noblest qualifications, induced the Editor of this small volume to select such poems as have been universally esteemed the first ornaments of our language, and admired, not only for purity of sentiment, but for beauty and har, mony of numbers.

TEN

PAOZ, Parnel. Goldsmith. 4 Langborne. Pope.

IS Cunningham. 18 Thomson. 24 Maller.

35 Thomson. 41

43 Cunningham.. 45 Greville,

Health, an Eclogue.
Edwin and Angelina.
Hymn to Humanity.
The Nightingale.
Day, a Pastoral.
Hymn, from the Seasons.
Edwin and Emma.
Contemplation on Night.
The Nun, an Elegy.
Hyma on Solitude.
Ode to Sensibility.
Content, a Pastoral.
Prayer for Indifference.
On the Immortality of the Soul.
Ode in Elfrida.
Hymn to Contentment,
The Country-Box.
Hymn to Adversity:
Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue.
An Inquiry after Happiness.
A Thunder Storm.
The Evening Walk.
Contemplation.
The Story of Lavinia.
The Universal Prayer.

Gay.

Mason. Parnel, Lloyd. Gray. Pope. Carter. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Theow. Pepe.

49 51 52 55 60 62 66 68

70 78 74 Ibid.

PAGE. Providence, an Hymn.

Addison. 82 X Gratitude.

Ibid. Creation.

Ibid.

86 A Winter Piece,

Pbilips. 87 The Fire-Side.

Cotton.

90 Adam's Morning Hymn. Milton.

93 A Pastoral Ballad.

Sbentone. Corydon, a Pastoral.

Cunningham. 105 The Day of Judgment.

Young 107 A Father's Advice to his Son.

IIO Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. 115 The Country Clergyman." Goldsmith. 119 Ode to the New Year.

Cunningban Anstey to Garrick.

125 To the Memory of Garrick.

126 The Friar of Orders Gray.

127 A Tale.

Melmoth. 132 The Feathered Race.

Graves.

134 Ode to Truth.

Malan. 136 Hector and Andromache. Pope's Homer. 139 The With.

Merrick.

144 Ode to Dr. Squire.

Dodd.

345 Elegy in a Country Church-yard. Gray. 148 Reflections on Human Life. Thomson.

154 The Beggar's Petition. Hymn to Benevolence.

Blacklock. The Death of Stella,

156 158 16

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