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A HISTORY, CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, WITH SPECIMENS
OF THEIR WRITINGS,
ORIGINALLY EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS, LL..
THIRD EDITION,
REVISED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS, LL.D.
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
VOL. V.
NEW YORK : AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGFC,
TRIBUNE BUILDING.
1830.
TABLE OF CONTENTS-VOL. V.
C
SEVENTH PERIOD.
PAGB,
The Anti-Jacobin Poetry..
46
1780—1830: THE REIGNS OF GEORGE Ships of the Line in Þort, by Can-
GEORGE NII. AND GEORGE IV.
ning
47
The Friend of Humanity and the
POETS.
Knife-grinder..
PAGE.
Song by Rogero in “The Rovers”. 48
, William Jones (1746-1794.).
2 Canning's Epitaph on his Son.... 49
Ode in Imitation of Alcæus..
4
Dr. John Wolcot (1738-1819)..
50
5
Persian Song of Hafiz..
53
Epitaph on Dr. Johnson.
Concluding Sentence of Berkeley's
The Pilgrims and the Peas..
- Siris" Imitated
5 The Apple Dumplings and the King 54
! Tetastric from the Persian
Whitbread's Brewery visited by their
Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1708).
6
Majesties.
55
The Fireside.
Lord Gregory-Epigram on Sleep 58
William Cowper (1731-1800).
The Rev. W. Crowe (circa 1746-1829).. 59
7
Character of Chatham
11
Wreck of the “ Halsewell”
59
The Greenland Missionaries.
12
The Miseries of War
Rural Sounds.
13
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)..
60
The Diversified Character of Cre Sonnets
61.
ation..
13 Recollections of English Scenery.
62
From “ Conversation
16 Susanna Blamire (1747-1794).
63
On the Receipt of his Mother's Pic The Nabob..
ture..
16 What Ails this Heart O' Mine ?..... 64
Voltaire and the Lace-worker.
Auld Robin Forbes
64
To Mary (Mrs. Unwin).
18 Mrs. Barbauld (1743-1825)
65
Winter Evening in the Country. 19 Life
Love of Nature.
21 Ode to Spring:
66
English Liberty.
22 To a Lady with Painted Flowers 67
Yardley Oak...
24 Hymn to Content.
67
John Gilpin...
25 Mrs. Opie (1769-1853)-Mrs. Hunter
William Hayley (1745-1820)
28
(1742-1821)—Mrs. Anne Grant
Tribute to a Mother on her Death.. 28 (1755-1838)–Mrs. Mary Tighe
Epitaphs on Cowper and Mrs. Un-
(1773-1810)
win..
30 The Orphan Boy's Tale
68
Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802 .....) 30 Songs-- The Death Song
69
Extracts from “Loves of the Plants" 31 The Lot of Thousands
70
Invocation to the Goddess of Botany 34 On a Sprig of Heath...
Destruction of Sennacherib's Army 35 The Highland Poor
71
Death of Eliza at the Battle of Min From Mrs. Tighe's,“ Psyche
den
36 The Lily...
73
Song to May-Song to Echo. 37 Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
74
Miss Seward (1747-1809). 37 Humble Pleasures
75
The Rolliad (Politica' Satires).
33 Harvest
76
Character of Mr. Pitt..
39 Rosy Hannah
77
William Gifford (1756-1826)
39 Lines to my Children
Degenrracy cf Modern Literature.. 41 Description of a Blind Youth
78
A Reviewer compared to a Toad.... 43 Banquet of an English Squire..... 78
The Grave of Anna......
44 The Soldier's Home.
80
Greenwich Hill.................... 45. John Leyden (1775-1811)
81
..... 18
JUNI8'64
....105
laba"
Sonnet on Sabbath Morn
84 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) . . 146
Ode to an Indian Gold Coin........ 84 Extract from “ Wallensteiu".
...150
From "The Mermaid”
85 Epitaph for Himself...
.152
Herry Kirke White (1785-106). 86 Extract from * Christabel"
154
To an Early Primrose..
88 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ..155
Sonnet
89 From the “Ode to the Departing
The Star of Bethlehem..
89
Year”.
160
| Britain a Thousand Years hence.... 89 Hymn in the Vale of Chamolni. .161
The Christiad
90 Love.
163
James Grahame 1765-1811)...
90 From “Frost at Midnight.”
.164
Apostrophe to Scotland.
91 Love, Hope, and Patience in Educa-
From “The Sabbath ".
92
tion...
164
A Summer Sabbath Walk.
93 Youth and Age.
.165
An Autumn Sabbath Walk.
94 Importance of Method
165
A Winter Sabbath Walk
95 Rev. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) 166
To My Son.......
96 Sonnets: To Time-Winter Even-
The Thanksgiving off Cape Trafal-
ing-Hope-Bamborough Castle.167
gar
96 South American Scenery..
.168
Ceorge Crabbe (1754-1832)
97 Sun-dial in a Churchyard.. . 169
Parish Workhouse and Apothecary 102 Blanco-White (1775-1841)
.169
Isaac Ashford, A Noble Peasant ...103 Sonnet on Night .
Phæbe Dawson..
Robert Southey (1774-1843).
..170
Dream of the Condemned Felon ...106 Extract from “ Joan of Arc”. ..171
Story of a Betrothed Pair.. ..107 Night in the Desert From “Tha-
An English Fen–Gipsies
..109
173
Gradual Approaches of Age. .110 Padalon, or the Indian Hades
174
Song of the Crazed Maiden
111 Love...
..175
Sketches of Autumn
..111
A Moonlight Scene in Spain.... ..176
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855),
..112 Wordsworth's Epitaph on Southey..178
From “The Pleasures of Memory”..114
The Battle of Blenheim
.179
From "Human Life".
.117 The Holly Tree
..179
Ginevra.-From Italy
.118 Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864).....181
An Italian Song....
.120 Short Extracts from “Gebir' and
Written in the Highlands of Scot-
“ Count Juliano
.182
land
120 Clifton-The Maid's Lament-Six-
Pæstum-From “Italy”.
..120
teen
182
On a Tear
..122 Conversation between Lords Chat-
William Blake (1757-1827).
..122
ham and Chesterfield.
..185
To the Muses-Song
.123 Conversation between William Penn
| Introduction to “Songs of Inno-
and Lord Peterborough... .186
cence"
124 Grandiloquent Writing— Milton ....187
The Lamb—The Tiger.
124 Edwin Atherstone (1778-1872)
........187
William Wordsworth (1770-1850).....124 Banquet in Sardanapalus's Palace. .188
Extracts from “The Excursion "...129 Charles Lamb (1775-1834).
.189
A Noble Peasant..
..129 Forest Scenes-From "John Wood-
The Deaf Dalesman....
..131
vil”
.190
London, 1802
.134 To Hester-The Old Familiar Faces.193
The World is too much with Us....134 A Farewell to Tobacco..
.194
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Dream Children, a Reverie... .195
1803
Poor Relations.
197
On King's College Chapel, Cam The Origin of Roast Pig
.198
bridge...
.135 William Sotheby (1757-1833)
..200
Lines : Lucy.
...136 Lines on Staffa.
...200
We are Seven..
..137
Approach of Saul and his Guards..201
A Portrait
.137 | Edward, Lord Thurlow (1781-1829) ...202
Lines composed above l'intern Abo Song to May-Sonnets..
202
bey
.138
To a Bird that haunted the waters of
Picture of Christmas Eve
141
Lacken in the Winter..
.203
To a Highland Girl
.142
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)..
, 142
A Moonlight Scene at Sea..........205
..135
Laodamin........
.........203