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OF THE
BRITISH POETS;
WITH 118375 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES,
WITH
AND
AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH POETRY.
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.
IN SEVEN VOLUMES.
VOL. V.
SEWELL, 1726, TO CAREY, 1763.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1819. i
Page
ib.
Song
15
DR. GEORGE SEWELL
Verses said to be written by the Author on himself
when he was in a Consumption . . .
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Fable.Related by a Beau to Esop
WILLIAM CONGREVE
From the Mourning Bride
. . . .
ELIJAH FENTON
To a Lady sitting before her Glass
EDWARD WARD . . .
Song . . . . . .
JOHN GAY
Monday; or the Squabble
Thursday; or the Spell
Saturday; or the Flights
The Birth of the Squire.-In Imitation of the Pollio
of Virgil . . . .
.
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
A Ballad (from the What-d'ye-call-it)
The Court of Death, a Fable .
BARTON BOOTH
Song . . . . . . '.
19
36
49
58
62
84
89
·
96
97
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE i 48
Song ..
MATTHEW GREEN .
From the Spleen
50
GEORGE LILLO ..
From the Fatal Curiosity
THOMAS TICKELL ..
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison
Colin and Lucy, a Ballad
JAMES HAMMOND
Elegy XIII. .
JOHN OLDMIXON •
Song (from bis Poems on several Occasions, in Imita-
tion of the Manner of Anacreon) . . . ib.
On himself (from Anacreon)
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE . . ..
Bacchus Triumphant, a Tale . . . ib.
RICHARD WEST . . . . . 101
Ad Amicos
JAMES EYRE WEEKES
The Five Traitors, a Song (from Poems printed at
Cork, 1743) · · · · · · ib.
RICHARD SAVAGE . . . . . 106
The Bastard . . .
. . ib.
ALEXANDER POPE .
110
The dying Christian to lis Soul . . . 112
The Rape of the Lock, Canto I.
. 113
- Canto II. . .' . 118
Canto III. . . . 123
Canto IV. . . . 129
Canto V. . . . 135
JONATHAN SWIFT
Baucis and Philemon. On the ever-lamented Loss
of the two Yew Trees in the Parish of Chil-
thorne, Somerset, 1708 (imitated from the eighth
Book of Ovid)
JAMES BRAMSTON
On Poetry.--A Rhapsody, 1733
: 146
. ib.
. 174
186
187
198
The Man of Taste · · · · ·
WILLIAM MESTON
The Cobbler.—An Irish Tale (from Mother Grim's
Tales)
. . . . . 175
THOMAS WARTON . . . . . 184
Retirement.-An Ode
Verses written after seeing Windsor Castle
An American Love Ode (from the second Volume of
Montaigne's Essays) . . . . ib.
THOMAS SOUTHERN .
From the Tragedy of Isabella, Act IV. Scene II. . ib.
- Act V. Scene I. .
- Scene II. : 199
Song (in Sir Anthony Love, or the Rambling Lady) . 203
ROBERT BLAIR . . . . 204
From the Grave . . . . 205
JAMES THOMSON ..
215
The Castle of Indolence, Canto I.
219
ISAAC WATTS .
245
Few happy Matches
AMBROSE PHILIPS .
248
To the Earl of Dorset
249
An Hymn to Venus (from the Greek of Sappho) .251
A Fragment of Sappho . . . . 253
LEONARD WELSTED . . . - . 254
From his Summum Bonum
AMHURST SELDEN
Love and Folly.—Arraignment and Trial of Cupid. ib.
- Canto II. . . . 273
-. From Canto IV. . . . 284
246
. 258