CONTENTS.

I.

ELEGIES on feveral Occafions.

A Prefatory effay on elegy.

EL EGY I

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He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes

occafion to expatiate in praife of fimplicity. To a

friend.

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ELE GY II.

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On pofthumous reputation. To a friend.

ELEGY III.

He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity

of friendship. To Meliffa his friend.

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ELE.G Y VI.

To a lady on the language of birds.

ELE GY VII.

He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance.

ELEGY VIII.

He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its confequences.

To Mr. G. 1745.

ELE GY IX.

He defcribes his diftintereftedness to a friend.

EL EGY X.

To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her dif

penfations.

ELE GY XI:

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He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over.

To a friend, on fome flight occafion estranged from him. 45

EL EGY XIV.

Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes

occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. Το

Lord Temple.

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In memory of a private family in Worcestershire.- 51

ELE

GY XVI.

He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a person of merit,

ard the folly of a fupercilioufnefs that is built upon

that fole foundation.

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ELE

ELEGY XVII.

He indulges the fuggeftions of spleen: an elegy to the

He repeats the fong of Collin, a difcerning fhepherd;
lamenting the state of the woollen manufactury.

ELE GY

Written in Spring 1743.

ELEGY

XIX.

XX.

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He compares his humble fortune with the diftrefs of
others; and his fubjection to Delia, with the mi-
ferable fervitude of an African flave.

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Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is
led to meditate on the characters of the ancient Britons.
Written at the time of a rumoured tax upon luxury.

were fo frequently violated.

ELEGY XXIII.

Reflections fuggefted by his fituation.

ELE GY XXIV.

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85

He takes occafion from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne,
to fuggeft the imperfect pleasures of a folitary life. 90
ELE GY XXV.

To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his
benevolence fuffers on account of his humble fortune. 94

ELE-

Defcribing the forrow of an ingenuous mind, on the

melancholy event of a licentious amour.

II.

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ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.

Rural elegance: an ode to the late duchefs of Somerfet.

Written 1750.

Ode to memory. 1748.

The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a Story

recorded of her, when he was prifoner at Wood-

Stock, 1554.

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Ode to a young lady, fomewhat too follicitous about

ber manner of expreffion.

Nancy of the vale. A ballad.

Ode to indolence. 1750.

Ode to health. 1730.

To a lady of quality, fitting up her library.

Upon a vifit to the fame in winter. 1748.

An irregular ode after fickness. 1749.

Written in a flower book of my own colouring, defigned

for lady Plimouth. 1753-4.

Anacreontic. 1738.

Ode. Written 1739.

The dying kid.

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