THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M. A.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

OXFORD:

BY E. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

n.

CONTENTS.

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) .

Extract from The Letter from Italy

The Campaign

3 WILLIAM WALSH (1663–1708)

To His Book (1691).

Sonnet

The Despairing Lover

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729)

VOL. III.

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

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by 'News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

32

33

Prof. J. Nichol

34

39

39

40

42

Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Book I

Book IV

50

Mark Pattison

55

70

73

Canto III

77

82

83

85

91

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

Extract from the Epilogue to the Satires

Το

114

123

XALLAN

RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd:

Jenny and Peggy

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou were my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

A Snow Scene, from 'Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from Autumn'

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

"

'Book IV

"

Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

187

Edmund W. Gosse 189

Extract from The Last Day, Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

George Saintsbury 222

The Death of Friends, from Night III

228

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

228

229