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M. S. GULIELMI SHENSTONE!

Ah! Gulielme,
Hominum digniffime,
Amicorum integerrime,
Indole optimâ,
Moribus gratiffimis,
Eruditione diffusâ,

Ac corde quam maxime benigno

Prædite,

Marte, eheu præmaturâ obrepte,
Ah! Gulielme,
Vale!

"Quanto minus eft,

"Cum aliis verfari,

"Quam tui meminiffe!"

T. H.

Extract from Mr. MASON'S " English Garden,"

Book I.

-Nor, Shenftone, thou

Shalt pass without thy meed, thou fon of peace!
Who knew'ft, perchance, to harmonize thy fhades,
Still fofter than thy fong; yet was that fong
Nor rude, nor inharmonious, when attun'd
To paftoral plaint, or tale of flighted love.

CON

CONTENT S.

I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions.

A Prefatory Effay on Elegy.

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ELEGY I. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occafion to expatiate in praise of fimplicity.

To a friend.

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II. On Pofthumous Reputation. To a Friend. III. On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance.

IV. Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. Graves.

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V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Melissa his friend. VI. To a Lady, on the language of Birds. VII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. VIII. He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its confequences. To Mr. Graves, 1745. 26 IX. He defcribes his difinterestedness to a friend. 28 X. To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her difpenfations. XI. He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over. To Mr. Jago.

XII. His recantation.

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XIII. To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him.

XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. To Lord Temple.

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XV. In memory of a private family in Worcester

hire.

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XVI.

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