Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets Part 92

By

THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.

IN THREE VOLS.

VOL. III.

CONTENTS.

THIRD PERIOD--FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a very young Lady Song

JOHN POMFRET The Choice

THE EARL OF DORSET Song

JOHN PHILIPS The Splendid s.h.i.+lling

WALSH, GOULD, &c.

SIR SAMUEL GARTH The Dispensary

SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE Creation

ELIJAH FENTON An Ode to the Right Hon. John Lord Gower

ROBERT CRAWFORD The Bush aboon Traquair

THOMAS TICKELL To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison

JAMES HAMMOND Elegy XIII

SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c.

RICHARD SAVAGE The b.a.s.t.a.r.d

THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER An American Love Ode

JONATHAN SWIFT Baucis and Philemon On Poetry On the Death of Dr Swift A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736

ISAAC WATTS Few Happy Matches The Sluggard The Rose A Cradle Hymn Breathing toward the Heavenly Country To the Rev. Mr John Howe

AMBROSE PHILIPS A Fragment of Sappho

WILLIAM HAMILTON The Braes of Yarrow

ALLAN RAMSAY Lochaber no more Tho Last Time I came o'er the Moor From 'The Gentle Shepherd'--Act I., Scene II.

DODSLEY, BROWN, &c

ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Imitation of Thomson Imitation of Pope Imitation of Swift

WILLIAM OLDYS Song, occasioned by a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale

ROBERT LLOYD The Miseries of a Poet's Life

HENRY CAREY Sally in our Alley

DAVID MALLETT William and Margaret The Birks of Invermay

JAMES MERRICK The Chameleon

DR JAMES GRAINGER Ode to Solitude

MICHAEL BRUCE To the Cuckoo Elegy, written in Spring

CHRISTOPHER SMART Song to David

THOMAS CHATTERTON Bristowe Tragedy Minstrel's Song The Story of William Canynge Kenrick February, an Elegy

LORD LYTTELTON From the 'Monody'

JOHN CUNNINGHAM May-eve; or, Kate of Aberdeen

ROBERT FERGUSSON The Farmer's Ingle

DR WALTER HARTE

EDWARD LOVIBOND The Tears of Old May-Day

FRANCIS FAWKES The Brown Jug

JOHN LANGHORNE From 'The Country Justice'

Gipsies A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse

JOHN SCOTT Ode on hearing the Drum The Tempestuous Evening

ALEXANDER ROSS Woo'd, and Married, and a'

The Rock an' the wee pickle Tow