'T'he Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson......... 271 Book VII.
393
An Inquiry into the Origin of Paradise Lost,
VIII.
398
by Mr. Todd .....
317
IX.
403
X.
412
COMMENDATORY VERSES ON MILTON.
XI.
421
XII.
428
Io Paradisum Amissam summi Poetæ Johannis
Appendix to Paradise Lost, containing Plans
Miltoni. By Dr. Samuel Barrow ...... 343
of similar Subjects, intended for Tragedies
On Paradise Lost. By Andrew Marvel ib.
by Milton : from his own MS. in Trinity
To Mr. John Milton, on his Poem entitled
College, Cambridge....
434
Paradise Lost. By F. C. 1680
344
By Dryden
ib.
PARADISE REGAINED.
From an Account of the Greatest English
Poets
ib. Book I.
435
Address to Great Britain. From Thomson's
II.
440
Summer
345 III.
444
Ode to the Muse. From Akerside
ib. IV.
448
Dalton's Prologue to Comus, 1738... ... ib. Samson Agonistes. A Dramatic Poem 453
Dr. Johnson's Prologue to the Mask of Comus,
Appendix to Samson Agonistes, containing
acted at Dury-Lane Theatre, April 5, 1750, Plans of other Subjects, intended for Trage-
for the Benefit of Milton's Grand-daugh-
dies by Milton: from his own MS. in Trinity
ib.
College, Cambridge..
468
From Gray's Progress of Poesy
472
Ode on the Poetical Character. From Collins,
475
Ode to Memory. By Mason
346 Il Penseroso
476
From the Rev. Thomas Wharton's Address to
Arcades. Part of a Mask
the present Queen on her Marriage
ib.
Song I. Look, nympbs and shepherds, look. ib.
From the Description of Night in the same
II. O'er the smooth enamell’d green... 478
Author's Pleasures of Melancholy
ib.
III. Nymphs and shepherds, dance no
From Hayley's Essay on Epic Poetry, Epist.
more......
ibr.
III......
ib. Dedication to Comus.
479
From Cowper's Table Talk......
ib. The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Henry
Cowper's Author's Task, B. JI..........
ib.
Wootton, to the Author, upon his Poem.
From the Poetical Works of William Preston,
Comus
ib.
Esq. Dublin, 1793.
ib.
Account of Ludlow Castle, by Mr. Todd 480
From Poems and Plays by Mrs. West, 1799.. 347 Origin of Comus, by Mr. Warton
482
Comus. A Mask, presented at Ludlow Castle,
PARADISE LOST.
1634, before John Earl of Bridgewater, then
Book I.
President of Wales .
... 485
............... 349
II.
355
III.
SONNETS.
........... 364
IV.
370 1. To the Nightingale
........ 500
V.
II. Donna leggiadra, ib cui bel nome ho-
VI,