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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE . . . . . . .

AUTHOR'S PREFACE . . . . . . . . .

A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY .

PASTORALS : - -

SPRING, OB DAMON. . . . . . . .

SUMMER, OR ALEXIS . . . . . . .

AUTUMN, OR HYLAS AND AEG9N . . .

WINTER, on DAPHNE . . . . . . .

MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE . . . . o

WINDSOR FOREST . . . . . . . . . .

oDE ON ST. CECILIA's DAY . . . . .

TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.

ODE ON SOLITUDE . . . . . . . .
THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.

TSSAY ON CRITICISM . . . . . . . . .

"THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . . . . .
'ELEGY * O * © o © o e o o o © o o
PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF JANE SHORE
SAPPHO TO PHAON, TRANSLATED FROM OvID

ELOISA To ABELARD . . . . . . .

TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS-continued. PAGE

THE WIFE of BATH . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Statius's THEnais, the Finst Book . . . . . 146

THE FABLE of DRYoFE . . . . . . . . . . 167

VERTUMNUS AND POMONA . . . . . . . . . 170

IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS : .

SPENSER,--THE ALLEY . . . . . . . . . . . 178

WALLER,-ON A LADY SINGING . . . . . . . 175

ON A FAN of THE AUTHOR’s DESIGN . . 175

CowLEY, -THE GARDEN . . . . . . . . . . 176

WEEPING . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

EARL of RochestER,-On SILENCE . . . . . . 177

EARL OF DoRSET, ARTEMISIA . . . . . . . 179

PHRYNE - . . . . . . . . 180

DR. Swift,-HAPPY LIFE of A CountEY PARson . 180

MISCELLANIES:

EPISTLE To RoberT EARL OF Oxfor D . . . . . 182

JAMES CRAggs, Esq. . . . . . . . 183

MR. J.ERVAs . . . . . . . . . . 184

MRS. BLOUNT . . . . . . . . . . 186

- THE SAME . . . . . . . . . . 188

THE BASSET-TABLE, AN ECLogue . . . . . . . 189

VERBATIM from Boileau . . . . . . . . . 193

Answer To A QUESTION or MRs. How . . . . . 193

On some VERSEs of THE Duke of Buckngham . 193

PROLogue To A PLAY For MR. DENNIS's BENEFIT . 194

MACER, A CHARACTER . . . . . . . . . . . 194

To Ma. John Moons . . . . . . . . . . . 195

SoNG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY . . . . . . . 196

ON A CERTAIN LADY AT. Court . . . . . . . . 197

On his Grotto at twickenham . . . . . . . . 198

To MB. GAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

To Mas. M. B. on HER Biath-Day . . . . . . 199

To MB. Thomas SouTHERN . . . . . . . . . 199

MISCELLANIES-continued. PAGE

Roxana, on THE DRAWING-Room. An Eclogue . . 200

To LADY M. W. MonTAGu . . . . . . . . . 201

ExTEMPORANEous LINEs on THE PICTURE OF LADY

M. W. MonTAGU, BY KNELLER . . . . . . 202

THE Lookisg-Glass . • . . . . . . . . 203

TAREWELL To LoNDON . . . . . . . . . . . 203

LINEs sung BY DURASTANTI on TAKING LEAVE of

The English Stage . . . . . . . . . . 206

UPON THE DUKE of MARLBoRough’s House AT WooD-

Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

VERSEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

THE CHALLENGE, A CourtT BALLAD . . . . . . 206

THE THIREE GENTLE SHEPHERDs . . . . . . . 208

VERSEs to DR. Bólton . . . . . . . . . . 208

EPITAPHS :

ON CHARLEs EARL OF DORSET . . . . . . . . 209

SIR WILLIAM TRUMBAL. . . . . . . . . . 210

Hon. Simon Hancount . . . . . . . . . 210

JAMES CRAGGS, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . 211

MR. Rowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

MRS. CoRBET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ll

HoN. R. DIGBY AND HIs SISTER . . . . . . 212

Sun GoDFREY KNELLEF . . . . . . . . . 212

GENERAL H. WITHERS . . . . . . . . . 213

MR. ELIJAH FENTON . . . . . . . . . . 213

MB. GAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

SIR ISAAC NEWTON . . . . . . . . . . . 214

DR. F. ATTERBURY . . . . . . . . . . . 214

EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . . . . . . 215

For ONE who would NoT BE BURIED IN WEST-

MINSTER ABBEY . . . . . . . . . . . 216

On HIMSELF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215