A Winter Landscape,

Benevolent Reflections, from Winter,

Hymn on the Seasons,

The Caravan of Mecca,

The Siberian Exile,

JOHN DYER,

Pestilence at Carthagena,

From the Castle of Indolence,

Rule Britannia,

Grongar Hill,

WILLIAM HAMILTON,

The Braes of Yarrow,

Song

Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale),

Song-(Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate),

DR SAMUEL JOHNSON,

From the Vanity of Human Wishes,

Prologue spoken by Mr Garrick-1747,

On the Death of Dr Robert Levett-1782,

WILLIAM COLLINS,

Ode on the Passions,

Ode to Liberty,

Eclogue IL-Hassan; or the Camel Driver,

Ode Written in the Year 1746,

Ode to Evening,

DAVID MALLET,

William and Margaret,

Dirge in Cymbeline,

Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson,

WILLIAM SHENSTONE,

The Schoolmistress,

A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts-1743,

Song--Jemmy Dawson,

Written at an Inn at Henley,

Edwin and Emma,

The Birks of Invermay,

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Ode to Independence,

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Ode to Leven Water,

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The Tears of Scotland,

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JOHN ARMSTRONG,

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Recommendation of Angling,

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From the Monody,

Advice to a Lady,

Prologue to the Tragedy of Coriolanus-Spoken by Mr

Quin,

WILLIAM MASON,

From Caractacus,

THOMAS GRAY,

Hymn to Adversity,

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,

The Bard-a Pindaric Ode,

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,

The Alliance between Government and Education-a

Fragment,

Epitaph on Mrs Mason, in the Cathedral of Bristol,

OLIVER GOLDSMITH,

Schoolmaster, and Alehouse-Reflections,

Edwin and Angelina,

Italians and Swiss Contrasted,

France Contrasted with Holland,

Description of Auburn-The Village Preacher, the

Pestilence of the Fifteenth Century,

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE,

Cumnor Hall,

Eternal Providence,

A Farewell Hymn to the Valley of Irwan,

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE,

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse,

DR THOMAS PERCY,

O, Nanny, wilt Thou Gang wi' Me,

The Friar of Orders Gray,

JAMES MACPHERSON,

Ossian's Address to the Sun,

Fingal's Airy Hall,

Address to the Moon,

Desolation of Balclutha,

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The Songs of Selma,

The Cave,

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The Mariner's Wife,

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The Spirit of the Cape,

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DR JOHN LANGHORNE,

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The Dead,

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FRANCIS FAWKES,

The Brown Jug,

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD,

Variety,

DR JAMES GRAINGER,

Terrors of a Guilty Conscience,

Ode to Aurora on Melissa's Birthday,

The Portrait,

JAMES BEATTIE,

Opening of the Minstrel,

Description of Edwin,

Morning Landscape,

Life and Immortality,

Retirement-1758,

The Hermit,

CHRISTOPHER SMART,

Song to David,

RICHARD GLOVER, .

Address of Leonidas,

The Armies at Salamis,

Admiral Hosier's Ghost,

ROBERT DODSLEY,

Song-The Parting Kiss,

SAMUEL BISHOP,

To Mrs Bishop on the Anniversary of her Wedding-day,

which was also her Birth-day, with a Ring,

SIR WILLIAM JONES,

An Ode, in Imitation of Alcæus,

A Persian Song of Hafiz,

The Concluding Sentence of Berkeley's Siris Imitated,

Tetrastic-From the Persian,

Ode to Solitude,

JAMES MERRICK,

The Chameleon,

JOHN SCOTT,

Ode on Hearing the Drum,

WILLIAM OLDYS,

Song, made Extempore by a Gentleman, occasioned by a

Fly Drinking out of his Cup of Ale,

JOHN CUNNINGHAM,

Song-May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen,

Content, a Pastoral,

NATHANIEL COTTON,

The Fireside,

CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY

The Public Breakfast,

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A Sensitive Author,

The Anatomy of Character performed by Uncharitable-

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MRS COWLEY,

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DAVID GARRICK,

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Scene from High Life Below Stairs,

SAMUEL FOOTE,

Tuft Hunting,