Joseph Addison (1672-1719).

The French People in 1699.

From the Letter from Italy

Ode, How are thy Servants blest,

O Lord!'.

.144

Ode, The Spacious Firmament on

High'

..145

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The Battle of Blenheim..

Extract from the Tragedy of 'Cato '.146

Matthew Prior (1664-1721).

..149

Extract from Verses to Chloe '.....150

For My Own Monument...

Epitaph Extempore...

An Epitaph...

To a Child of Quality..

Abra's Love for Solomon.

Written in Mezeray's

France'.

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History of

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The Thief and the Cordelier.

Ode to a Lady refusing to continue a

dispute.

.156

Theory of the Mind, from 'Alma'..137

Rev. James Bramston (1694-1744)....157

Extracts from Art of Politics' and

'Man of Taste'.

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)..

Extract from Imitation of Horace..161

Ode to Spring, by Vanessa, note....161

A Description of the Morning.

A Description of a City Shower.

Baucis and Philemon.

..163

.164

.165

From Verses on the Death of Dr.

Swift'.

.166

The Grand Question Debated.......170

Alexander Pope (1663-1744).

Hope The Poor Indian- - Happi-

..159

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.182

ness...

The Messiah.

The Toilet, from The Rape of the

Lock'.

.184

Description of Belinda and the

Sylphs......

....184

PAGE

186

From Eloisa to Abelard'.

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfor-

tunate Lady..

188

Happiness depends not on Riches...190

From the 'Prologue to the Satires '.192

The Man of Ross..

.194

Death of Villiers, Duke of Bucking-

ham....

.195

The Dying Christian to his Soul....196

Extract from Translation of the

'Iliad '

Elijah Fenton (1683

Broome (1689–1745)..

Minor Poets Satirised in the Dun-

ciad' Theobald, Dennis, Gildon,

Welsted, Cooke, Á. Hill, &c...

Richard Savage (1697-1743).

Extract from The Bastard'.

Extract from The Wanderer'

Sir Samuel Garth (1670-1719)

Extract from 'The Dispensary'

On Death..

Sir Richard Blackmore (circa 1650-

1729)

- 1730) W.

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206

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The Scheme of Creation.

Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).

A Night-piece-The Churchyard....208

The Hermit.

SCOTTISH POETS.

.208

.212

John Gay (1688-1732).

.216

The Country Ballad Singer

Walking the Streets of London.. ..217

Song, Sweet Woman is like the fair

Flower'

The Court of Death.

The Hare with many Friends.

Song, Black-eyed Susan

A Ballad, "Twas when the

were Roaring'

Thomas Tickell (1636-1740).

On the Death of Mr. Addison...

Colin and Lucy: a Ballad..

An Imitation of the Prophecy of

Nereus..

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Seas

221

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224

225

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Ambrose Philips (1671-1749).

Fragment from Sappho

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney

Epistle to the Earl of Dorset..

From the First Pastoral-Lobbin...227

George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

(circa 1665-1735).

Anne, Countess of Winchelsea (circa

1666-1720)

A Nocturnal Reverie.

Life's Progress..

228

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229

.230

Francis Sempill-Lady Wardlaw. ....230

Extract from Hardyknate'.

Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)..

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.231

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PAGE

Inconveniences likely to Result

from the Abolition of Christian-

ity.....

..343

Diversions of the Court of Lilliput.244

Satire on Pretended Philosophers..345

Thoughts on Various Subjects..

Overstrained Politeness..

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)..

On Sickness and Death.

Pope in Oxford....

Death of two Lovers by Lightning..352

Description of an Ancient Country-

Seat...

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Pope to Bishop Atterbury in the

Tower...

355

A Recipe to make an Epic Poem....356

Dr John Arbuthnot (1667-1735).. ..357

.359

Epitaph on Chartres.

Characters of John Bull, Nic Frog

and Hocus..

.359

Character of John Bull's Mother...360

Character of John Bull's Sister. .360

The Celerity and Duration of Lies...361

Usefulness of Mathematical Learn-

ing..

362

Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751). ..362

The Decline of Life..

..363

..364

The Order of Providence.

National Partiality and Prejudice.. 364

Unreasonableness of Complaints of

the Shortness of Human Life. ...365

Pleasures of a Patriot.....

.366

Wise Distinguished from Cunning

Ministers..

...367

369

Lady Mary W. Montagu (1690-1762)..368

On Matrimonial Happiness...

Eastern Manners and Language.. 370

Inoculation for the Small-pox..

France in 1718...

.371

372

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.374

Ou Female Education.

William Wotton (1666-1726).

Decline of Pedantry in England....374

Tom D'Urfey (1630-1723), and Tom

Brown (1663-1704)..

..375

Letter from Scarron in the next

World to Lonis XIV..

..375

An Indian's Account of a Gaming

House

.376

Laconies or Maxims.

..377