Extract from An Ode to the Spleen

In Answer to Mr. Pope

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

Prof. J. Nichol

A Description of the Morning

Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

The Beasts' Confession

The Day of Judgement

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Extracts from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift

AMBROSE PHILIPS (1671-1749)

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The Hermit

Extract from The Essay on Criticism

The Rape of the Lock, Canto II

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Canto III

Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

6.

Book I

Book IV

Moral Essays, I

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.

Augustus

Extract from the Epilogue to the Satires

;; from the Dunciad, Book IV

Conclusion of the Dunciad

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from the Ode to Miss Carteret

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death
A Hymn to Contentment

Extract from The Shepherd's Week

A Ballad

The Hare with many Friends

Black-eyed Susan

THOMAS TICKELL (1686–1740)

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

To

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ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:

Jenny and Peggy

Patie and Peggy

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

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Through the Wood, Laddie
An thou wre my ain thing

To her I love

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

A Snow Scene, from 'Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from 'Autumn'

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

Book IV

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Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Extract from The Chase, Book I

Book II

EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765) .

Extract from The Last Day; Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night

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RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)

Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)

Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and all of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

1

JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

An Hymn for Seriousness

WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763) .

Suffering and Sympathy (from The Schoolmistress)

Pastoral Ballad.

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The Dying Kid

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

The Dean of Westminster 254

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Ode to Liberty

Ode

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Ode to Evening

The Passions

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

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