A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon. Charles Lord Halifax, in the year 1701........ III. Of the Nature and State of Man IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with respect to Happiness... 368 Moral Essays. In Five Epistles to several ib. II. Of the Characters of Women III. On the Use of Riches...... 376 A Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho 501 IV. Of the Use of Riches....... 379 A Fragment of Sappho V. To Mr. Addison, occasioned Satire.. X Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 386 Ode, written in the year 1746... Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl 385 ib. The Journal of a Modern Lady, in a Letter Baucis and Philemon. On the ever-lamented loss of the two Yew-trees in the Parish of A Description of the Morning. ....... 405 The Grand Question Debated: Whether Ham- ..... 406 The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser 517 Elegy, describing the sorrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melancholy event of a licen- tious amour. ADVERTISEMENT. THE object of this Work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical Poets, from Ben Jonson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with Biographical and Critical notices of their Authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth. The Work, within these bounds, may be termed a "Library of Classical English Poetry," and may safely be recommended to the heads of Schools in general, and to the libraries of Young Persons. |