Cyclopćdia of English literature

CONTENTS OF SECOND VOLUME.

Sirth period.

Passages from the Grave,

On Life, Death, and Immortality,

Thoughts on Time,

The Man whose Thoughts are not of this World,

Procrastination, .

11 From the Love of Fame,

The Emptiness of Riches,

JABES THOMSON,

Showers in Spring,

Birds Pairing in Spring,

A Summer Morning,

Summer Evening,

Autumn Evening Scene, .

Episode of Lavinia,

A Winter Landscape, .

Benevolent Reflections, from Winter,

Hymn on the Seasons, .

The Caravan of Mecca,

The Siberian Exile,

Pestilence at Carthagena,

From the Castle of Indolence,

Song-(Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale),

Song-(Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate),

DR SAMUEL JOHNSON, .

From the Vanity of Human Wishes, .

Prologue spoken by Mr Garrick-1747,

On the Death of Dr Robert Levett-1782,

WILLIAM COLLINS, . . .

Eclogue II.-Hassan; or the Camel Driver,

Ode Written in the Year 1746,

Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson,

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, .

The Schoolmistress,

A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts-1743,

Song-Jemmy Dawson,

Written at an Inn at Henley,

DAVID MALLET, .

William and Margaret,

Edwin and Emma,

The Birks of Invermay,

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MARK AKENSIDE,

Aspirations after the Infinite,

Intellectual Beauty-Patriotism,

Operations of the Mind in the Production of Works of

Page Imagination,

. . . .

Taste,

On a Sermon against Glory--1747, , ,

Inscription for a Monument to Shakspeare,

Inscription for a Statue of Chaucer, at Woodstock, .

Lord LYTTELTON, . . .

From the Monody,

Advice to a Lady, ,

Prologue to the Tragedy of Coriolanus--Spoken by Mr

Quin,

. .

Thomas Gray, . .

Flyman to Adversity, .

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,

The Bard-a Pindarie Ode, . .

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,. .

The Alliance between Government and Education-

Fragment, . . . .

WILLIAM MASON, .

| From Caractacus,

Epitaph on Mrs Mason, in the Cathedral of Bristol,

OLIVER GOLDSMITH,

Italians and Swiss Contrasted,

France Contrasted with Holland,

Description of Auburn - The Village Preacher, the

18 Schoolmaster, and Alehouse-Reflections,

Edwin and Angelina, .

Extracts from Retaliation,

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT,

Ode to Independence,

Ode to Leven Water,

The Tears of Scotland,

JOHN ARMSTRONG, .

Wrecks and Mutations of Time,

Recommendation of Angling, ..

Pestilence of the Fifteenth Century,

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE, .

Dumnor Hall, .

The Mariner's Wife,

The Spirit of the Cape,

DR JOHN LANGHORNE,

Appeal to Country Justices in Behalf of the Rural Poor,

30 An Advice to the Married,

The Dead,

. .

Eternal Providence, .

A Farewell IIymn to the Valley of Irwan,

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, .

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse,

DR THOMAS PERCY, .

0, Nanny, wilt Thou Gang wi' Me,

The Friar of Orders Gray, . .

JAMES MACPHERSON, .

Ossian's Address to the Sun,

Fingal's Airy Hall,

Address to the Moon, .

Desolation of Balclutha, ..

41 A Description of Female Beauty,

42 The Songs of Selma,

. 43 The Cave,

THOMAS CHATTERTON, . .

81 MRS THRALE, .

124

Bristow Tragedy, or the Death of Sir Charles Bawdin, 84 The Three Warnings,

124

The Minstrel's Song in Ella, .

THOMAS Moss, .

125

Resignation, .

The Beggar, . . . . . 125

WILLIAM FALCONER, . .

The Miseries of a Poet's Life,

Woo'd, and Married, an

126

Wretchedness of a School-Usher,

Joux LOWE, . . .

126

CHARLES CHURCHILL, . .

Virtue and Happiness in the Country

Miss JANE ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN,

127

Elegy-Written in Spring,

The Flowers of the Forest, .

Written in a Visit to the Country in Autumn,

Robert CRAWFORD, .

Complaint of Nature, . .

The Bush aboon Traquair,

Written after seeing Windsor Castle, .

SIR GILBERT ELLIOT,

129

Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon, . 100 Amynta,

129

On Revisiting the River Loddon,

100 ROBERT FERGUSSON,

129

On Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window at Oxford, 100 Braid Claith, .

130

The Hamlet-an Ode,

To the Tron-Kirk Bell,

130

JOSEPH WARTON, .

Scottish Scenery and Musio,

A Sunday in Edinburgh,

Terrors of a Guilty Conscience,

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF THE PERIOD

132

Ode to Aurora on Melissa's Birthday,

103 Careless Content, i

Opening of the Minstrel,

A Pastoral, .

134

Description of Edwin, .

106

Ode to a Tobacco Pipe,

135

Morning Landscape, .

Song-(Away! let nought to love displeasing), .

135

Life and Immortality,

108 | The Gamester's Last Stake,

121 Discovery of her Son by Lady Randolph,

138

Address of Leonidas, .

13 JAMES Thomson,

The Armies at Salamis, .

113

Against the Crusades, . ...

Admiral Hosier's Ghost,

114 Love, . .

140

ROBERT DODSLEY,

Miscalculations of Old Men,

140

Song-The Parting Kiss,

115 WILLIAM MASON,

138

SAMUEL BISHOP, . .

Awfulness of a Scene of Pagan Rites,

140

To Mrs Bishop on the Anniversary of her Wedding-day,

Against Homicide, .

140

which was also her Birth-day, with a Ring, . 115 RICHARD GLOVER,

140

SIR WILLIAM JONES, .

115

Solitude on a Battle Field,

140

An Ode, in Imitation of Alcæus,

A Persian Song of Hafiz,

DAVID MALLET,

139

The Concluding Sentence of Berkeley's Siris Imitated,

140

117 Fortitude,

Tetrastic-From the Persian,

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, ..

119 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, .

Arrival at the supposed Inn,

142

120

John Scott,

121 | RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN,

143

121

Ode on Hearing the Drum,

A Sensitive Author, ,

• 144

WILLIAM OLDYS, .

121 The Anatomy of Character performed by Uncharitable-

Song, made Extempore by a Gentleman, occasioned by a

ness,

. .

146

Fly Drinking out of his Cup of Ale,

Song-May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen,

MACKLIN, .

148

Content, a Pastoral,

122 REV. MR TOWNLEY, .

NATHANIEL COTTON,

122

148

Scene from High Life Below Stairs,

The Fireside,

122 SAMUEL FOOTE,

150

CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY, .

The Public Breakfast,

151

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Isaac BICKERSTAFF,

Appearance and Character of Mahomet,

CHARLES DIBDIN,

• 152 Termo

Term of the Conquest of Timour, or Tamerlane; his

Triumph at Samarcand; his Death on the road to

PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS.

China (A.D. 1405); Character and Merits of Timour,

DR SAMUEL JOHNSON, .

Invention and Use of Gunpowder, . .

Tale of Anningait and Ajut,

153 Letter of Gibbon to Mrs Porten-Account of his Mode

John HAWKESWORTH,

155 of Life at Lausanne,

De MOORE,

155 Remarks on Reading,

HENRY MACKENZIE, .

156

METAPHYSICAL WRITERS.

Story of La Roche, . ..

DR FRANCIS HUTCHESON,

NOVELISTS.

DAVID HUME, . . .

SAMUEL RICHARDSOX, .

160 On Delicacy of Taste,

HENRY FIELDING, . .

On Simplicity and Refinement,

Partridge at the Playhouse,

Estimate of the Effects of Luxury,

Tobias GEORGE SMOLLETT, .

Of the Middle Station of Life, .

Scene at Lanark, . .

167

DR DAVID HARTLEY,

Feast in the Manner of the Ancients,

The Results of Misdirected and Guilty As

The Story of Le Fevre,

171 DR REID, , ..

The Starling-Captivity, .

LORD KAMES,

A French Peasant's Supper, .

Pleasures of the Eye and the Ear,

On the Love of Nature,

.
Harley Sets Out on his Journey-The Beggar and his

WRITERS IN DIVINITY.

Dog, . . . . . . . 178

The Death of Harley, .

179

DR JOSEPH BUTLER,

| Miss CLARA REEVE,

180 Bishop WARBURTON,

The Grecian Mythology-The Various Lights in which

DR COXYERS MIDDLETON, .

State of Parties at the Reformation in England,

183

Dr Richard HURD,

The Middle Ages-Progress of Freedom,

184

DR G. HORNE, .

Death and Character of Queen Elizabeth,

DR JOHN JORTIN,

DR WILLIAM ROBERTSON,

185 GEORGE WHITEFIELD,

Character of Mary Queen of Scots, .

187 JOHN WESLEY, .

Martin Luther, .

NATHANIEL LARDNER,

Discovery of America,

199 Hugu FARMER, . . . .

Chivalry, . .

· 190 DR JAMES FOSTER,

Characters of Francis L and the Emperor Charles V. 191 John LELAND, .

DR SMOLLETT,

De HUGH BLAIR,

WILLIAM TYTLER,

191 On the Cultivation of Taste,

ARCHIBALD BOWER,

191 Difference between Taste and Genius,

DR JOHN CAMPBELL,

On Sublimity, .

WILLIAM GUTHRIE,

192 DR GEORGE CAMPBELL,

GEORGE SALE, .

MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS.

GEORGE PSALMANAZAR,

192

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, ..

192 DR SAMUEL JOHNSON, .

LORD LYTTELTON, .

192 From the Preface to the Dictionary,

DR THOMAS BIRCH,

192 Reflections on Landing at Iona,

DR ROBERT HENRY,

192 Parallel between Pope and Dryden,

DR GILBERT STUART,

192 Picture of the Miseries of War,

192 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, . . .

192 Scenery of the Alps,

192 A Sketch of the Universe,

192 Scenery of the Sea-coasts,

On the Increased Love of Life with Age

192 A City Night-Piece,

192 EDMUND BURKE,

192 From the Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775,

192 Mr Burke's Account of his Son, .

192 The British Monarchy,

Opinion of the Ancient Philosophers on the Immortality

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,

of the Soul, .

195 The Order of Nobility,

The City of Bagdad-Magnificence of the Caliphs, 196 Dependence of English on American Freedom,

vonquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, A.D. 1099, 197 | Destruction of the Carnatic,

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The Difference between Mr Burke and the Duke of Bed-

Flora's Horologe,

ford,

233 Sonnets,

Character of Howard the Philanthropist,

234 Recollections of English Scenery,

JUNIUS,

234 Miss BLAMIRE,

Junius's Celebrated Letter to the King,

238 The Nabob,

DE LOLME, . .

241 1 What Ails this Heart o' Mine,

DR ADAM SMITH, .

242 Auld Robin Forbes,

DR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

244 To a Lady, with some Painted Flowers,

245 Miss ANNA SEWARD,

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE,

245 Song--The season comes when first we met),

On the Right of Property,

246 Song-10 tuneful voice ! I still deplore),

EARL OF CHESTERFIELD,

248 The Death Song, Written for, and Adapted to,

Definition of Good Breeding,

248 Original Indian Air, .

SOAME JENYNS,

249 To my Daughter, on being Separated from

DR ADAM FERGUSON,

249 Marriage,

LORD MON BODDO,

249 The Lot of Thousands,

HORACE WALPOLE,

249 MRS AMELIA OPLE,

Politics and Evening Parties, .

250 The Orphan Boy's Tale,

The Scottish Rebellion, . .

Song-(Go, youth beloved, in distant glades), .

London Earthquakes and London Gossip,

MRS ANNE GRANT,

THE EARL OF CHATHAM, . .

252 On a Sprig of Heath,

Speech of Chatham on being taunted on account of

The Highland Poor, .

youth, . . . .

253 MRS MARY TIGHE,

Speech of Chatham against the employment of Indians From Mrs Tighe's • Psyche,

in the War with America,

253 The Lily, . .

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD,

ENCYCLOPÆDIAS AND MAGAZINES.

Turnip-Sowing-Wheat Ripening-Sparrows-Insects

EPHRAIM CHAMBERS, .

255 The Sky-Lark-Reaping, &c.—Harvest Field, .

DR ABRAHAM REES,

255 Rosy Hannah, . .

DR John CAMPBELL,

255 Lines Addressed to my Children,

ROBERT DODSLEY,

Description of a Blind Youth,

| MR EDWARD CAVE,

Banquet of an English Squire,

The Soldier's Home,

To his Wife,

John LEYDEN, .

Sonnet on Sabbath Morn,

Ode to an Indian Gold Coin,

FROM 1780 TILL THE PRESENT TIME.

The Greenland Missionaries, .

To a Tuft of Early Violets,

Rural Sounds,

260

GEORGE CANNING,

The Diversified Character of Creation,

260

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder,

From 'Conversation,

260

Song by Rogero in The Rovers,

On the Receipt of his Mother's Picture,

261

Lines on the Death of his Eldest Son,

Voltaire and the Lace-Worker,

THOMAS JAMES MATHIAS,

To Mary (Mrs Unwin), .

262 DR JOHN Wolcot,

Winter Evening in the Country,

262 Advice to Landscape Painters, .

Love of Nature, . . .

The Pilgrims and the Peas,

English Liberty,

265

The Apple Dumplings and a King,

A Winter Walk, .

Whitbread's Brewery Visited by their Mujesties,

The Diverting History of John Gilpin,

267 Lord Gregory, . .

WILLIAN HAYLEY,

269 May Day, .

Tribute to a Mother, on her Death,

Epigram on Sleep,

Inscription on the Tomb of Cowper,

To my Candle,

On the Tomb of Mrs Unwin, .

HENRY KIRKE WHITE,

Dr ERASMUS DARWIN, . . .

To an Early Primrose, .

Invocation to the Goddess of Botany,

271 Sonnet-(What art thou, Mighty One!) .

Destruction of Sennacherib's Army by a Pestilen-

The Star of Bethlehem, .
tial Wind, . .

A Hymn for Family Worship,

The Belgian Lovers and the Plague,

272 The Christiad, .

Death of Eliza at the Battle of Minden,

272 The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song.–To the Night, .

Philanthropy-Mr Howard

JAMES GRAHAME,

Song to May, . .

273 From the Sabbath, .

Song to Echo,

273 A Spring Sabbath Walk,

MRS CHARLOTTE SMITH,.

273 A Summer Sabbath Walk,

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