THE WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS. WITH LIVES OF THE AUTHORS, BY EZEKIEL SANFORD. VOL. XXIV. SHENSTONE, &c. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY MITCHELL, AMES, AND WHITE, William Brown, Printer. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of March, in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America. A. D. 1819, Ezekiel Sanford, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Works of the British Poets. With Lives of the Authors, by Ezekiel Sanford." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."-And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, CONTENTS. Page 3 Description of the Leasowes, by R. Dodsley, 11 ELEGIES, WRITTEN ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. He arrives at his retirement in the Country, and takes occasion to expatiate in praise On posthumous Reputation. To a Friend, He compares the Turbulence of Love with the Tranquillity of Friendship. To Me- To a Lady, on the Language of Birds, He describes his Vision to an Acquaintance, He describes his Disinterestedness to a Friend, To Fortune, suggesting his Motive for repining 60 To a Friend, on some slight occasion estrang- Declining an Invitation to visit foreign Coun- tries, he takes occasion to intimate the Advantages of his own. To Lord Temple, 69 In Memory of a private Family in Worcester- He suggests the Advantages of Birth to a Per- son of Merit, and the Folly of a Superci- He repeats the song of Colin, a discerning Shepherd, lamenting the State of the Woollen Manufactory, He compares his humble Fortune with the Distress of others, and his Subjection to Delia with the miserable Servitude of an Taking a view of the Country from his Re- tirement, he is led to meditate on the Character of the ancient Britons. Writ- Sepulture were so frequently violated, Reflections suggested by his Situation, He takes occasion, from the Fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to suggest the imperfect To Delia, with some flowers; complaining how much his Benevolence suffers on ac- Describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind |