CONTENTS RES Page tires Satires and Epistles of Horace imitated . . . Book II. Satire I. To Mr. Fortescue . . 97 Book II. Satire II. To Mr. Bethel . . . 121 Epistles imitated from Horace. Epistle I. Book I. To Lord Bolingbroke . . 143 Epistle VI. Book I. To Mr. Murray . . 167 Epistle I. Book II. To Augustus . . . 187 Epistle II. Book II. To Colonel Cotterell . 253 Satires of Dr. John Donne versified Satire II. . . . . . . . . 296 Epilogue to the Satires, in two Dialogues Dialogue II. . . . . . . . . 368 Imitations of Horace . . . . . . 395 Epistle VII. Book I. Imitated in the manner of To Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY, on receiving from her a Standish and Two Pens . . . . . 430 1740. A POEM . . . . . . . . 435 FRAGMENTS AND Fugitive PIECES . . . 445 The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace 447 The Translator . . . . . . . 450 A Farewell to London, 1715 . . . . 452 Prologue designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last play . 454 Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage • 455 Sylvia, a Fragment . . . . . . 462 Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea . . . 463 Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bonon- On Mrs. Tofts, a celebrated Opera Singer. ibid. Applied to Francis Chartres . . Epigram, from the French . . . . ibid. Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Kat club. . 466 To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame. . ibid. On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper . 467 Poems on reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man Mountain.. 468 The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the loss of To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful address of the unhappy Houyhnhnms . . . . 473 AN ESSAY ON SATIRE; OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MR. POPE; INSCRIBED TO MR. WARBURTON: By J. BROWN, A.M. VOL. VI. John Brown, A.M., afterwards D. D. and author of the following Essay on Satire, is also advantageously known to the literary public by several other works, and particularly by his Essays on the Characteristics of Lord Shaftesbury, of which there have been many editions. Another work of his, which obtained still greater popularity, was his “Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times," where he endeavoured, by the severity of his invective against the indolence and selfishness of his countrymen, to rouse them to useful and honourable exertion, in which noble and patriotic attempt he is supposed to have had considerable success. His Tragedy of Barbarossa was brought forwards with great advantage by Garrick, and for some time kept possession of the stage. He also wrote a poem, intitled “Honour,” addressed to Lord Lonsdale, and an ode intitled “The Cure of Saul,” which was set to music and performed as an oratorio. The former of these may be found in the third volume of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, and the latter in the second volume of the supplemental collection of Pearch. Many other pieces of his are enumerated in the Biographia Britannica, where a further account of the circumstances of his life, and of its unhappy termination, may be found. To the character of Dr. Brown, both moral and intellectual, the following piece does great credit; and in the situation where it is now placed, it may serve as no unsuitable introduction to the Satires of Pope, as it contains sound principles and correct critical opinions, and is upon the whole one of the best imitations of the style and manner of Pope that have hitherto appeared. |