And must be bought, tho' penury be lide; See in each fprite fome various bent appear! Thilk to the huster's sav'ry cottage tend, Here, as each season yields a different store, O may no wight 'e'er pennyless come there, See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, Admir'd SHREWSBURY cakes, Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride. i. Who chearless o'er her darkling region strays "Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way, CON TEN T S. I. ELEGIES on feveral Occasions. Page 15 A Prefatory esay on elegy. EL EGY I. He arrives at bis retirement in the country, and takes occafron to expatiate in praise of fimplicity. To a friend. 29 ELE Ğ Y II. On pofthumous reputation. To a friend. 31 ELĖ GY.III, On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance. 33 E L E G Y IV. Ophelia's urn. To Mr. Goto 36 E LEGY V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Melisa his friend. E L E G Y VI. To a lady on the language of birds. E L EGY VII, He describes his vision to an acquaintance. 41 E L EGY VIII. He describes his early love of poetry, and its consequences: To Mr. G. 1745 45 EL E G Y IX. He describes his disinterestedness to a friend, 47 EL EGY X. To fortune, fuggefling his motive for repining ar ber difpenations. 50 ELEGʻY 38 39 ELEGY XI. He complains how foon the pleasing novelty of life is over. To a friend, on some flight occafion estranged from him. 57 Declining an invitation to visit foreign countries, be takes occasion to intimate the advantages of his own. To Lord In memory of a private family in Worcestershire. He suggests the advantages of birth to a person of merit, and the folly of a superciliousness that is built upon that He indulges the suggestions of Jpleen: an elegy to the He repeats the song of Collin, a difcerning shepherd; la- menting the fate of the woollen marufačtury. 76 He compares his humble fortune with the diftreffes of others, and his fubje&tion to Delia with the miferable fervitude 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. Written in the year when the rights of sepulture were go E LEGY man- ELEGY XXIV. ELEGY XXV. EL EGY XXVI. 104 Written 1750. of ber, when she was prisoner at Woodstock, 1554: 124 126 128 130 132 137 138 143 145 147 166 liam Lyttleton, Eja. 179 TIT, LEVITIES, 144 149-166 C 168 176 183 |