LUDICROUS POEMS, continued.

The Birth of the Squire. Gay, 403.
The Rape of the Lock. Pope, 424-430.
Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle. Smart,545.
The Haunch of Venison. Goldsmith, 575.
Address to the Deil. Burns, 682.

A Public Breakfast at Bath. Anstey, 728, 729.

LYDGATE (John), notice of, 78.

Specimens of his poetry, 78.
Strictures on his style, 19.

LYLY (John), notice of, 31, 44, 120.
Specimens of his poetry, 120.
LYNDSAY (Sir David), notice of, 86.

Specimens of his poems, 86-88.

LYTTELTON (George, Lord), specimen of, 559, 560.

MACKENZIE (Henry), supplemental lines to Collins,
by, 477.

Madrigal, Rosalind's. Lodge, 149.

Maid, good counsel to a young. Carew 215.
MALLET (David), notice of, 508.

Ballad and Song by, 509, 510.

Mankind, ode to. Earl Nugent, 644.

Mannyng (Robert), commonly called De Brunne, 9.
Markham (Isabella), sonnet on. Harrington, 101.
MARLOWE (Christopher), 32, 37, 103.

Specimen of his poetry, 103.
MARSTON (John), notice of, 38, 187,

Specimens of his poetry, 187-189.
MARVELL (Andrew), notice of, 317, 318.
Specimens of his poetry, 318, 319.
MASSINGER (Philip), notice of, 34, 227.
Specimens of, 228-237.

Critical remarks on his productions, 44.
MASON (Rev. William), notice of, 687-690.
Specimens of, 690-696.

Mason (Mrs.), epitaph on.

Mason, 695.

Matches, few happy. Dr. Watts, 459.
MAY (Thomas), notice of, 252.

Specimen of, 252.

Specimen of, 440, 441.

Metaphysical Poets. Davies and Brooke, 42.

MICKLE (Wm. Julius), notice of, 646–648.
Specimens of his poems, 648-652.

MIDDLETON (Thomas), notice of, 196.
Specimens of his poems, 196-200.

Remark on his witches, 49, note.

MILTON (John), notice of, 309, 310.
Specimens of, 310-317.

How far he was indebted to Sylvester's trans-
lation of Dubartas, for the prima stamina of
Paradise Lost, 41.

Critical remarks on his poetical works, 52–54.
His admiration of Shakspeare, 311.

His obligations to Langlande, 16.

Mirror for Magistrates gave hints to Spenser and
Shakspeare, 19.

Intention of, 96, note.

Misery, personification of. Tho. Sackville, 96.
Mitford (W.), his observation on the language of
Layamon, 8.
Langlande, 15.

Montague (Mr. W.), verses on his return from travel.
Carew, 214.

MOORE (Edward), notice of, 479.

Specimens of, 479, 480.

MOORE (Sir J. H.), specimens of, 603.
MORAL POEMS.

The Soul's Errand. Anon., 116.

A Valediction. Cartwright, 241.

Power of Genius over Envy. W. Browne, 245.
On Ambition. Anon., 282.

The Inquiry. Kath. Philips, 265.

Character of a true friend. The same, 265.
The Pre-existence of the Soul. Dr. More, 348.
From Alma, or the Progress of the Mind. Prior,
392.

The Wish.

Merrick, 523.

On Education. Gray, 548.

On Vicissitude. The same, 549.

London. Dr. Johnson, 611.

The Vanity of Human Wishes. The same, 614.

On the death of Dr. Robert Levett. The same,
616.

MORE (Dr. Henry), notice of, 348.

Specimen of, 348, 349.

Morning Star, address to. J. Hall, 257.

Mortimer, Earl of March, surprised by Edward III.
Drayton, 167.

Mothers, persuasion to, to suckle their own children.

Darwin, 719.

Mother, lines on the picture of his. Cowper, 716.
MOTTEUX (Peter Anthony), notice of, 386.
Specimens of, 386.

NABBES (Thomas), specimen of, 251.
NASH (Thomas), notice of, 123.

Specimen of his poems, 123.

Nature, successive appearances of, during a sum-
mer's day, described. A. Hume, 121.
NEYVILE (Alexander), specimen of his translation
of Seneca's Edipus, 30.

NICCOLS (Richard), notice of, 200.

Specimens of his Poems, 200, 201.
Night, song of. Ben Jonson, 206.
Nightingale, address to. Ayres, 338.

Sonnet to. Milton, 310.

Norman Conquest, influence of, on the English lan-
guage, 1.

State of Norman Poetry in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries, 6-8.

NUGENT (Robert Nugent, Earl), notice of, 643.
Specimens of, 644, 645.

Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, addressed to,
575.

Nut-Brown Maid, the beautiful ballad of, 22.
Nymphs, address of, to their May Queen. Watson,
104.

OCCLEVE, a versifier of the fifteenth century, notice
of, 19.

ODES.

The Lover's Complaint. Sir T. Wyat, 90.
A Lover's Suit to his Mistress. The same, 90.
A Lover's Lament that he had ever cause to
doubt his Lady's faith. The same, 91.

To his coy Love. Drayton, 177.

To the Memory of Mrs. Killigrew. Dryden,

358.

On Providence. Addison, 388.

ODES, continued.

On Retirement. T. Warton, 446.

An American love-ode. The same, 446.

To Evening. Collins, 175.

On the popular superstitions of the Highlands
of Scotland. The same, 476.

The Discovery. Moore, 479.

To a Great Number of Great Men, newly made.
Williams, 487.

On Rural Elegance. Shenstone, 497.

To Memory. The same, 497.

Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn. Burns,
686.

To Fancy. J. Warton, 700.

Old Age, personification of. Tho. Sackville, 96.
Old Man's Wish. Dr. Pope, 372.
OLDMIXON (John), specimens of, 418.
OTWAY (Thomas), specimens of, 333-337.

Character of his Plays, 55.
Dryden's opinion of, note, 51.

OVERBURY (Sir Thomas), notice of, 131.

Specimen of his poems, 131.

Owen of Carron, a Tale. Langhorne, 595.
OXFORD (Earl of). See VERE.

RALEIGH (Sir Walter), notice of, 38, 140.

Specimens of his Poems, 140-142.

RAMSAY (Allan), notices of, 482-484.

Specimens of, 485-487.

Ramsay (Allan), the Painter, whimsical Poem by,

483, note.

RANDOLPH (Thomas), notice of, 44, 191.

Extracts from, 192–194.

Rape of the Lock. Pope, 424-430.
Rastell, an early Moral Play by, 29.

Reason, influence of. T. Scott, 563.

Reformation, influence of, on the literature of Eng-
land, 24.

Retirement, an ode. T. Warton, 446.

Religion, address to. Sylvester, 142.

Remorse, description of. Tho. Sackville, 96.

Reynolds's (Sir Joshua), painted window, at Oxford,

ROBERT DE BRUNNE, an early English poet, notice
of, 10.

Character and style of his productions, 11.
ROBERT of Gloucester, character of the poetry of, 9,
Referred to, 3.

Robert (Duke of Normandy), description of. Nic-
cols, 200.

ROBERTS (Wm. Hayward), notice of, 664.
Specimen of, 664-668.

ROCHESTER (John Wilmot, Earl of), notice and spe-
cimens of, 320, 321.

ROLLE (Richard), a poet of the fourteenth century,
notice of, 13.

Romances, early English, probable date of, 12.
Romantic fiction, origin of, 7.

Rosamond, the death of, described. May, 252.
ROSCOMMON (Wentworth Dillon, Earl of), specimen
of, 331-333.

ROWE (Nicholas), specimens of, 381-383; his in-
fluence on the drama, 58.

ROWLANDS (Samuel), notice of, 181.

Specimens of his Poems, 181, 182.
ROWLEY (William), notice of, 223.
Specimens of, 223-225.

Royal George, verses on the loss of the. Cowper,

713.

Rump (The), a collection of Poems, extract from,
282.

Rural Elegance, ode on. Shenstone, 497.
RUSSELL (Thomas), account of, 640.

Sonnets by, 641.

SACKVILLE (Thomas, Baron Buckhurst, and Earl

of Dorset), notice of, 95.
Specimen of his poetry, 96-98.
Critical observations on it, 25.

And on his tragedy of Gorboduc, 29.

SACKVILLE (Charles, Earl of), notice of, 366.
Specimens of, 366, 367.

SACRED POEMS.

The Quip. George Herbert, 185.
Grace. The same, 185.

Business. The same, 185.

Peace.

The same, 186.

Matins. The same, 186.

The Collar. The same, 186.

A Meditation. Sir H. Wotton, 216.
Psalm LXVII. Sandys, 241.
Faith. Quarles, 242.

An Emblem. The same, 243.
Spiritual Poems. Drummond, 251.
Cupio Dissolvi. Habington, 255.

Litany to the Holy Spirit. Herrick, 286.
On the Circumcision. Milton, 310.
Early Rising and Prayer. Vaughan 355.
The Rainbow. The same, 356.

The Wreath. (To the Redeemer.) The same,

356.

Piety, or the Vision. The same, 379.
Hymn to Contentment. The same, 380.
Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII. Addison, 388.
The dying Christian to his Soul. Pope, 424.
Extracts from the Grave. Blair, 447.
Extracts from the Night Thoughts. Young, 512.
Song of David. Smart, 545, note.
Samson bewailing his captivity and blindness. Mil-
ton, 311.

Speeches of his Father and of the Chorus, on
hearing of his last achievement and death.
The same, 312.

SANDYS (George), notice of, 241.

Specimens of, 241, 242.

Extracts from, 733.

Sappho, translations of. A. Philips, 458, 459.

SATIRES.

Extracts from various. Bp. Hall, 125-128.
The Dispensary, Canto I. Garth, 384.
The Cameleon. Prior, 391.

The Man of Taste. Bramston, 437.
Introduction to the Rosciad. Churchill, 501.
Character of a Critical Fribble. The same, 501.
Chit-Chat. Lloyd, 506.

The Love of Praise. Young, 516.
Propensity of man to false and fantastic joys.
The same, 516.

The Wedded Wit. The same, 517.

The Astronomical Lady. The same, 517.
The Languid Lady. The same, 517.
The Swearer. The same, 517.

On Nash's picture at full length, between the
busts of Newton and Pope at Bath. Lord
Chesterfield, 562.

Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers. Ma-
son, 696.

Satire, probable date of, in the English language, 8.
SAVAGE (Richard), specimen of, 422.

The Thales of Johnson's London, 611, note,
Saxon language, observations on the changes of,
1, 4.
Saxon Chronicle, 1.

Schlegel on the unities of the drama, 34.

Scholar, despair of a poor one described. Nash,

Chaucer and Dryden, 66.

Swift, 431.

Chatterton, 540-542.

Smollett, 555.

Johnson, 611.

Mickle, 646.

His edition of Sir Tristrem, 12, 13.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 49.

Otway, 55.

Dryden's Virgil, 56.

Absalom, 57.

Dryden characterized, 57.

An erroneous opinion formed of Milton by,
311, note.

SCOTTISH POETS, general observations on, 79, 80.
Scrutiny, The. Richard Lovelace, 264.
SEDLEY (Sir Charles), specimens of, 363, 364.
SELDEN (Amhurst), specimens of, 461-464.
Seneca's tragedies, notice of translations, 30.
Settle (Elkanah), the character of, by Dryden, 357.
Seward (W.), remark on Beaumont and Fletcher,

48.

SHAW (Cuthbert), notice of, 552.

Specimen of, 552, 553.

SHENSTONE (William), notice of, 491, 492.

Specimens of his poems, 492.

Shepherd, the Stedfast. Wither, 302.

Shepherd's Address to his Love. Marlowe, 103.

Life, Happiness of. Phin. Fletcher, 146.
Hunting. Wither, 300.

Resolution. The same, 301.

Sheridan, character of. Churchill, 502.

Shipwreck, The, extracts from. Falconer, 525–530.

SHIRLEY (James), notice of, 268.

Extracts from, 268-251.

Critical observations on them, 49-51.
Singing-bird, ode to a. Richardson, 590.
Skelton (John), critical account of, 21.
Sleep, personification of. Tho. Sackville, 96.
Address to. Sir P. Sidney, 101.
SMART (Christopher), notice of, 545.

Specimens of his poems, 545.
SMITH (James), specimen of, 305.
SMOLLETT (Dr. Tobias), notice of, 554, 727.
Specimens of his poems, 555-557.

Solitude. Cowley, 291.

Ode to. Grainger, 521.

SUCKLING (Sir John), notice of, 238.

Specimens of, 238, 239.

SURREY (Earl of). See Howard.
SWIFT (Dr. Jonathan), specimens of, 431-436.
Imitation of, by I. H. Browne, 490.
SYDNEY (Sir Philip,) notice of, 101.

Specimens of his poems, 101, 102.
His life, poetry put into action, 26.
Sydney (Lady), verses on her picture. Waller, 339.
SYLVESTER (Joshua), notice of, 142.

Specimens of his poems, 142.

Inquiry how far Milton was indebted to his
translation of Dubartas' poem, for the prima
stamina of Paradise Lost, 41.

Specimen of Sylvester's version, 41.
Beautiful expression in, 42.

His right to the Soul's Errand, 116.

TALES.

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer, 69.
Tale of the Coffers, or Caskets. Gower, 76.
Argentile and Curan. Warner, 129.
A Fairy Tale. Parnell, 373.
The Hermit. The same, 377.
Protogenes and Apelles. Prior, 391.
Bacchus Triumphant. Somerville, 419.

Love and Folly. A. Selden, 461–469.

Variety. W. Whitehead, 623.

Syr Martyn. Mickle, 648.

The Twa Dogs. Burns, 676.
Tam O'Shanter. The same, 684.

THOMPSON (Capt. Edward), notice of, 638.
Specimens of, 638, 639.

THOMSON (James), notice of, 449.
Specimen of, 450-457.
Poem by, 489, note.

Imitation of, by I. H. Browne, 489.
Allusion to, 588.

Compared with Cowper, 708, 709.
Tibullus, imitation of. West, 474.
TICKELL (Thomas), notice of, 415.
Specimens of, 415-417.

Time, swiftness of. Gascoigne, 100.
Traveller, The. Goldsmith, 568.

Turner (Sharon), his History of the Anglo-Saxons

referred to, 5.

Vanity of Human Knowledge. Sir J. Davies, 162.
Of the World, farewell to. Sir H. Wootton, 215.
Of Human Wishes. Dr. Johnson, 614.
Variety, a tale. W. Whitehead, 623.
VAUGHAN (Henry), specimens of, 355, 356.
VAUX (Lord), notice of, 94.

Specimens of his poems, 94.

Venus, hymn to. A. Philips, 458.

And Adonis. William Browne, 246.

VERE (Edward, Earl of Oxford), 123.

Specimens of his poems, 123, 124.

Verse, translated, observations on. Roscommon, 331.
Vertù, allegorical description of. G. West, 474.
Villiers (Lady Mary), epitaph on. Carew, 213.

Virgil, translated by Phaer, strictures on, 40.

Specimen of that version, 40, note.

Critical remarks on, with specimens of Dryden's
translation of this poet, 36.

WHITEHEAD (Paul), notice of, 576.

Hunting Song by, 577.

WHITEHEAD (William), notice of, 619-622.
Specimens of, 622-626.

WHYTE (James), specimen of, 665.

Wife, qualities of one. Sir T. Overbury, 131.
Monody on the death of. Shaw, 552.

Lord Lyttelton, 559.
Verses to, with a present of a knife. Bishop,
674.

Verses to, with a ring. The same, 674.
Wilbye's Madrigals, songs from, 118, 119.
WILDE (Dr. Robert), specimen of, 304.

WILLIAMS (Sir Charles Hanbury), specimen of, 487.
WILMOT (Robert), notice of his Tancred and Sigis-

munda, 30.

WILMOT. See ROCHESTER (Earl of).

Winchelsea (Lady), her genius for descriptive poetry,

WITHER (George), notice of, 38, 299.

Specimens of, 299-302.

Wolsey (Cardinal), verses on. Storer, 124.
Extract from Skelton's satire on, 22.

Women, verses on. Vere, 123.

The praise of. Randolph, 193.
Simile on. Whyte, 655.

Wordsworth (William), note by, on Dryden's genius,

55.

On Dryden and Pope's descriptive powers, 61.
WOTTON (Sir Henry), specimens of, 215, 216.
WYAT (Sir Thomas, the elder), notice of, 89.
Specimens of his poetry, 90, 91.
Character of it, 25.

YARDLEY OAK, description of. Cowper, 714.
YOUNG (Dr. Edward), notice of, 510.

Specimens of his poems, 512-517.
Imitation of, by I. H. Browne, 489.
Disgraced his talents by his flattery, 435.
Youth, vanity of. Gascoigne, 100.