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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3

by George Gilfillan

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Editor
Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marc D'Hooghe and the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
9669
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9669
Release Date
January 1, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — THIRD PERIOD—FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
  3. 3.SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. — SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. — TO A VERY YOUNG LADY. — SONG.
  4. 4.JOHN POMFRET, — THE CHOICE.
  5. 5.THE EARL OF DORSET. — SONG.
  6. 6.JOHN PHILIPS. — THE SPLENDID SHILLING.
  7. 7.SIR SAMUEL GARTH. — THE DISPENSARY.
  8. 8.SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE. — VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF SIR R. BLACKMORE, CONTAINING A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS. — CREATION.
  9. 9.ELIJAH FENTON. — AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD GOWER. — ROBERT CRAWFORD. — THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR.
  10. 10.THOMAS TICKELL. — TO THE EARL OF WARWICK, ON THE DEATH OF MR ADDISON.
  11. 11.JAMES HAMMOND. — ELEGY XIII.
  12. 12.RICHARD SAVAGE. — THE BASTARD.
  13. 13.THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER. — VERSES WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WINDSOR CASTLE. — AN AMERICAN LOVE ODE.
  14. 14.JONATHAN SWIFT. — BAUCIS AND PHILEMON. — ON POETRY. — ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT. — A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION-CLUB. 1736.
  15. 15.ISAAC WATTS. — FEW HAPPY MATCHES. — THE SLUGGARD. — THE ROSE. — A CRADLE HYMN. — BREATHING TOWARD THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY. — TO THE REV. MR JOHN HOWE.
  16. 16.AMBROSE PHILIPS. — A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO.
  17. 17.WILLIAM HAMILTON. — THE BRAES OF YARROW.
  18. 18.ALLAN RAMSAY. — LOCHABER NO MORE. — THE LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MOOR. — FROM 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.'
  19. 19.ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE. — IMITATION OF THOMSON. — IMITATION OF POPE. — IMITATION OF SWIFT.
  20. 20.WILLIAM OLDYS. — SONG, OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKING OUT OF A CUP OF ALE.
  21. 21.ROBERT LLOYD. — THE MISERIES OF A POET'S LIFE.
  22. 22.HENRY CAREY. — SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.
  23. 23.DAVID MALLETT. — WILLIAM AND MARGARET. — THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.
  24. 24.JAMES MERRICK. — THE CHAMELEON.
  25. 25.DR JAMES GRAINGER. — ODE TO SOLITUDE.
  26. 26.MICHAEL BRUCE. — TO THE CUCKOO. — ELEGY, WRITTEN IN SPRING.
  27. 27.CHRISTOPHER SMART. — SONG TO DAVID.
  28. 28.THOMAS CHATTERTON. — BRISTOWE TRAGEDY. — MINSTREL'S SONG. — THE STORY OF WILLIAM CANYNGE. — KENRICK. — FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY.
  29. 29.LORD LYTTELTON. — FROM THE 'MONODY.'
  30. 30.JOHN CUNNINGHAM. — MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN.
  31. 31.ROBERT FERGUSSON. — THE FARMER'S INGLE.
  32. 32.DR WALTER HARTE.
  33. 33.EDWARD LOVIBOND. — THE TEARS OF OLD MAY-DAY.
  34. 34.FRANCIS FAWKES. — THE BROWN JUG.
  35. 35.JOHN LANGHORNE. — FROM 'THE COUNTRY JUSTICE.' — GIPSIES. — A CASE WHERE MERCY SHOULD HAVE MITIGATED JUSTICE.
  36. 36.SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. — THE LAWYER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE.
  37. 37.JOHN SCOTT. — ODE ON HEARING THE DRUM. — THE TEMPESTUOUS EVENING.
  38. 38.ALEXANDER ROSS. — WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'. — THE ROCK AN' THE WEE PICKLE TOW.
  39. 39.RICHARD GLOVER. — FROM BOOK XII — ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.
  40. 40.WILLIAM WHITEHEAD. — VARIETY.
  41. 41.WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE. — CUMNOR HALL. — THE MARINER'S WIFE.
  42. 42.LORD NUGENT. — ODE TO MANKIND.
  43. 43.JOHN LOGAN. — THE LOVERS. — WRITTEN IN A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN AUTUMN. — COMPLAINT OF NATURE.
  44. 44.THOMAS BLACKLOCK. — THE AUTHOR'S PICTURE. — ODE TO AURORA, ON MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY.
  45. 45.MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN. — THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. — THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
  46. 46.SIR WILLIAM JONES. — A PERSIAN SONG OF HAFIZ.
  47. 47.SAMUEL BISHOP. — TO MRS BISHOP, — TO THE SAME,
  48. 48.SUSANNA BLAMIRE. — THE NABOB. — WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE?
  49. 49.JAMES MACPHERSON. — OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. — DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA. — FINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA. — ADDRESS TO THE MOON. — FINGAL'S SPIRIT-HOME. — THE CAVE.
  50. 50.WILLIAM MASON. — EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. — AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S WORKS, ETC.
  51. 51.JOHN LOWE. — MARY'S DREAM.
  52. 52.JOSEPH WARTON. — ODE TO FANCY.
  53. 53.MISCELLANEOUS. — SONG. — VERSES, — THE OLD BACHELOR. — CARELESS CONTENT. — A PASTORAL. — ODE TO A TOBACCO-PIPE. — AWAY! LET NOUGHT TO LOVE DISPLEASING. — RICHARD BENTLEY'S SOLE POETICAL COMPOSITION. — LINES ADDRESSED TO POPE.[1] — THE END.
  54. 54.INDEX

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