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CONTENTS
OF THE
FOURTH VOLUME.
POEMS.
THE TRAVELLER; OR A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY,
THE HERMIT; A BALLAD,
THE DESERTED VILLAGE,
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON; A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE,
THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. [Now printed from the original MS.
in Goldsmith's handwriting,]
RETALIATION,
The Clown's Reply,
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a Roman Knight,
whom Cæsar forced upon the stage. Preserved by Macrobius,
The Logicians Refuted. In Imitation of Dean Swift,
Epigram on a Beautiful Youth, struck blind by Lightning,
Stanzas on the taking of Quebec, and death of General Wolfe,
63
93
33
111
124
ib.
126
129
An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize,
132
Description of an Author's Bed-chamber,
133
Song. "O Memory! thou fond deceiver!"
135
Song. "The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part,"
Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Sister,"
Verses, in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Sir George Baker's.
146
Epilogue to the Comedy of "The Good-Natured Man,"
Prologue to the Tragedy of "Zobeide,"
An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley,
Threnodia Augustalis; sacred to the Memory of Her Royal Highness,
the Princess Dowager of Wales,
Letter, in Prose and Verse, to Mrs. Bunbury. [Now first printed,]
Epilogue to the Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer; or the Mistakes
of a Night,"
Epilogue to the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer;" intended to be
spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley,
Song. Ah me! when shall I marry me?"
Epilogue; spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the Character of Harlequin,
at his benefit,
DRAMAS.
THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. A COMEDY,
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER; OR THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT.
COMEDY,
SCENE FROM THE GRUMBLER; A FARCE. [Now first printed,]
A
CRITICISM RELATING TO POETRY AND THE BELLES-
LETTRES.
[NOW FIRST COLLECTED.]
I. Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful,
II. Professor Mallet on the Mythology and Poetry of the Celtes,
III. Thornton and Colman's Connoisseur,
IV. Wilkie's Epigoniad,
v. Home's Tragedy of Douglas, .
VI. Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius,
VII. Gray's Odes,
VIII. Wise's Inquiries concerning the First Inhabitants, Language,
Religion, Learning, and Letters of Europe, .
IX. Bayly's Introduction to Languages, Literary and Philosophical,
x. Burton's Greek Tragedies,
429
432
XI. Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,
II. Massey's Translation of Ovid's Fasti, .
436
1
442
XIII. Marriott's Female Conduct; an Essay on the Art of Pleasing.
To be practised by the Fair Sex, before and after Marriage,
451
XIV. Barrett's Translation of Ovid's Epistles,
455
xv. Church's edition of Spenser's Faerie Queen,
467
XVI. Langhorne's Death of Adonis, from the Greek of Bion,
472
XVII. Ward on Oratory,
478
XVIII. Murphy's Orphan of China,
481
XIX. Dr. Young's Conjectures on Original Composition; in a Letter
to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison, .
490
xx. Thyer's Genuine Remains, in Prose and Verse, of Samuel Butler,
XXI. The Twentieth Epistle of Horace to his Book modernized, by
the Author of Female Conduct,
XXIII. Goguet on the Origin and Progress of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, .
523