1 ambition after the ornaments and machinery of poetry. His craving after foreign help CHURCHILL is a fine rough satirist. He had sense, wit, eloquence, and honesty. GOLDSMITH, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease is quite unconscious. Every thing in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected, yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, nearly faultless. Without the point or refinement of Pope, he has more natural tenderness, a greater suavity of manner, a more genial spirit. Goldsmith never rises into sublimity, and seldom sinks into insipidity, or stumbles upon coarseness. His Traveller contains masterly national sketches. The Deserted Village is sometimes spun out into a mawkish sentimentality; but the characters of the Village Schoolmaster, and the Village Clergyman, redeem a hundred faults. His Retaliation is a poem of exquisite spirit, humour, and freedom of style. ARMSTRONGʻS Art of Preserving Health displays a fine natural vein of sense and poetry on a most unpromising subject. CHATTERTON'S Remains show great premature power, but are chiefly interesting from his fate. He discovered great boldness of spirit and versatility of talent ; yet probably, if he had lived, would not have increased his reputation for genius. THOMAS WARTON was a man of taste and genius. His Sonnets I cannot bely preferring to any in the language. COWPER is the last of the English poets in the first division of this collection, but though last, not least. He is, after Thomson, the best of our descriptive poetsmore minute and graphical, but with less warmth of feeling and natural enthusiasm than the author of The Seasons. He has also fine manly sense, a pensive and interesting turn of thought, tenderness occasionally running into the most touching pathos, and a patriotic or religious zeal mounting almost into sublimity. He had great simplicity with terseness of style: his versification is neither strikingly faulty nor excellent. His occasional copies of verses have great elegance; and his John Gilpin is efic of the most humorous pieces in the language. BURNS concludes the series of the Illustrious Dead; and one might be tempted to write an elegy rather than a criticism on him. In naïveté, in spirit, in characteristic humour, in vivid description of natural objects and of the natural feelings of the heart, he has left behind him no superior. Some additions have been made in the Miscellaneous part of the volume, from the Lyrical effusions of the elder Dramatists, whose beauty, it is presumed, can never decay, whose sweetness can never cloy! te CONTENT S. . Page 79 The Squieres Tale (a Fragment) A Session of the Poets 83 The Chariot of Pride drawn by the Passions 85 Una entertained by the Wood Gods From the Fourth Eclogue of the Shepherd's Hunting 50 On my Lay D. Sydney's Picture Com bat between Prince Arthur and the Soldan The Fable of the Oak and the Briar 95 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady From Paradise Lost, Book I. Geraldine 65 Book II. 101 The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard Earl of Address to Light 109 Surrey 67 Satan's Journey to Earth ibid. Polyolbion-- The XV. Song 69 Satan's Address to the Sun 112 The XXVIII. Song of the same 72 Satan's Entrance into Paradise ibid. An Ode written in the Peak 77 | The Conversation of Adam and Eve 115 The Ballad of Agincourt ibid. Eve's Dream The Mask of Cupid 52 At Penshurst . . . . . . The Angel Raphael sent to warn Adam of his ROCHESTER. Raphael's Account of the Creation Reconciliation between Adam and Eve A Letter from Artemisa in Town to Chloe in Sentence pronounced on Adam and Eve Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise From Paradise Regained—The Power of Beauty 128 Upon Nothing 240 Horace's Art of Poetry 242 The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Verses written for the Toasting Glasses of the Kit-cat Club, 1703 Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilborow An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Character of Hudibras and Ralpho The Battle between Bruin and his Foes An Epistle tó Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq. 257 Description of Sidrophel and Whackum To the Hon. Charles Montague, Esq. Upon Critics who judge of modern Plays pre- cisely by the Rules of the Ancients 165 Satire upon the Licentious Age of Charles II. 166 Satire upon the Abuse of Human Learning 168 170 Paulo Purganti and his Wife Epistle to John Dryden, Esq. ibid. The Rape of the Lock Epistle to Sir Godfrey Kneller 210 Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 283 212 January and May; or, the Merchant's Tale . . Rural Sports . . . . . Epistle to - Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of Sweet William's farewell to Black-eyed Susan 348 Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir ibid. Pleasures of Imagination Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 449 Written in a Lady's Ivory Table Book ibid. Elegy written in a "Country Church-yard ibid. ibid. The Bard (a Pindaric Ode) A Description of a City Shower A True and Faithful Inventory of the Goods belonging to Dr. Swift, Vicar of Laracor 367 The Double Transformation (a Tale) An Elegy on the Death of Demar, the Usurer 374 The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society Mary the Cook Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan 375 | The Haunch of Venison The Furniture of a Woman's Mind On cutting down the Old Thom at Markei 377 The Art of Preserving Health , Panegyric, and Description of the Bristowe Tragedie; or, the Dethe of Sir Charles Verses supposed to be written by Alexander 408 On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch 504 The Poet's New Year's Gift to Mrs. Throcki 418 The Dog and the Water Lily 419 The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant ibid. On a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage 420 Translations from V. Bourne 421 The Diverting History of John Gilpin Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson Pastoral Poems |
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