The fuccefs that has attended his endeavours muft remain with an impartial public to decide; but he can with truth affirm, that his great aim has been to join the useful with the agreeable, to excite in the bofom of his readers a fympathy for their fpecies, and to invite them to the practice of VIRTUE. Under this conviction of the purity of his own motives, he ventures to deprecate the cenfure of those who may think the means he has taken inadequate to the end proposed; mankind having long fince conceded, that to have meant well is at leaf to merit fuccefs, although a deficiency of talent, or an erroneous judgment, may difable us from obtaining it; and this appears to have been the opinion of the celebrated ADDISON when in his fine play of CATO he makes PORTIUS fay: ""Tis not in mortals to command fuccefs, "But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deferve it." As to typographical execution, it cannot fuffer by a comparifon with any publications of the prefent day, being printed on an entire new type, caft exprefsly for the purpose by that ingenious artift MR. CASLON; and its price muft certainly be allowed to render it the cheapest collection of the kind. Upon the whole, therefore, he indulges the hope, that it will be found an inftructive and entertaining POCKET COMPANION, equally acceptable to the traveller, and the focial circle affembled round the friendly fire-fide; and alfo, that it may not be thought an unwelcome recreation to juvenile minds, in as much, as while it unbends them from more fevere fludies, it will form their flyle, and give them a correct idea of those beauties which fo eminently adorn our ENGLISH POETS. The Editor. Cibber, Colley, 201 Johnfon, Sam, 155, 167, 169 Mafon, 146, 159, 183 Merrick, 203 Mickle, 162 Milton, 116, 120, 207 Moore, I Collins, 109, 125, 129, 133, 152, 174, Ogilvie, 170 Parnell, 97 Phædrus, 69 Pindar, Peter, [12 Pope, 41, 109 Pratt, 187 Cunningham, 43, 51, 52, 53, 104, Prior, 198 192 Crabbe, 114, 138 124 Gerrald, 197 Smart, 63, 75, 76 Goldfmith, Dr. 45, 59, 60, 64, 83, Smollett, Dr. 28, 48, 58 105 ABSENCE, a Paftoral CON CONTENTS. Blackbirds, an Elegy. Braes of Yarrow, an Elegy Conjugal Felicity, a Defcription Content, an Ode Country-Apothecary a Defcription Country-Box, a Tale Country-Bumpkin and Razor-feller, a Tale Country-Church-Yard, an Elegy in Country-Clergyman, a Defcription Courfe of Nature defcribed Sir William Jones Smart Aikin. Anacreon Anacreon Lord Lyttleton III Difappointment, a Paftoral Shenjtone Dying Indian, an Elegy Eaton-College, Ode on a diftant Prospect of .. Haffan,or the Camel-Driver, anOriental Eclogue Collins Anonymous 145 W. Thompson 42 Sir Henry Wotton 175 Dryden 132 192 Lovers' Night, a Paftoral Maiden's Petition Ben. Fonfon W. Thompson Goldfinith.. Morning, an Ode Negro Slaves, an Infcription at the Entrance of a Burying-Ground for No, an Ode to.. Dr. Hawkefworth 194 Smollet Milton Gay Cunningham 51 Mafon.......... 183 Sailor, an Elegy Rogers .. 195 Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral, an Oriental Eclogue Seven Ages of Man, a Defcription of Sheep and the Bramble-Buth, a Fable Slavery, a Moral Reflection on .... Sources of Life and Death, an Epigram Sweet Neglect, a sonnet Ben. Fonfon 186 Tear, an Ode Tears of Amynta, an Elegy Dryden 1;8 Thirft, an Ode Truth, an Ode Unfading Beauty, a Sonnet Carew 148 Univerfal Order, a Moral Reflection Univerfal Praver, a Moral Reflection Village-Aichoufe, a Defcription of Goldfinith ICS Village-Schoolmatter, a Defcription of Goldsmith 59 |