Omnipresence of God, the ... Moore "On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture" Cowper Ovidian Elegiac Metre exemplified ... Coleridge 137 Skylark, to a Sleep, to ... ... Sleeping Babe, the Solemn Music, at a Rainbow, to the Richard and Kate ... Rival Statesmen, the Rule Britannia Samson's Lament School Days Sennacherib's Army, the Destruction of Byron Spring ... Gay Mrs. Hemans Warton Denham Kirke White Rogers Campbell 7 Bloomfield 51 ... Walter Scott ... 156 ... ... PAGE. 354 Character of Shaftesbury 356 ... 358 ib. ... 360 The Monarch of Dulness Extracts from the Plea- sures of Imagination :- lence 414 363 371 GRAY. The Toilet 375 Extracts from the Essay on Biographical and Critical Man:- Notice 420 Man's ignorance 422 Gradation of the sensual and The Progress of Poetry mental faculties 378 The Bard 429 Happiness 380 THOMSON Biographical and Critical Notice Notice 382 The Traveller Extracts from the Seasons:- - The Summer Morning Biographical and Critical 383 385 COWPER. 387 391 Extracts from the Task:- COLLINS. Rural Sounds 453 Slavery 454 Address to Winter 455 Notice 395 The Winter Walk at Noon 456 Ode to Fear 397 On the Poetical Character 400 The Millennium 457 The Passions .. 402 BURNS. YOUNG. Biographical and Critical Biographical and Critical Notice 449 Notice 406 Extracts from the Night The Cotter's Saturday Night 461 Thoughts:- House 465 Wondrous Nature of Man 408 Procrastination 410 STUDIES IN ENGLISH POETRY. PART I. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND EXTRACTS. PRAYER FOR DIVINE AID. AUTHOR of Good! to thee I turn : Oh let thy fear within me dwell, And oh! by Error's force subdued, Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply: Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant; What ill, though asked, deny. Merrick. Thy love, &c.-let my love towards thee (not thy love towards me) guide my footsteps, i.e. influence my actions. 2 The line in Racine's Athalie in which Joad says, "Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte," has been deservedly admired, but the above expression conveys the same sentiment with at least equal force. 3 And oh! &c.-i.e. And oh! since my stubborn will, subdued by the force of error, often preposterously shuns. 4 Specious-from the Latin species, an appearance; hence specious ill is evil which has the appearance of good. B |