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OF THE
BRITISH POETS;
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES,
AND
AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH POETRY.
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.
IN SEVEN VOLUMES.
VOL. VI.
CHURCHILL, 1764, TO JOHNSON, 1784.
LONDON: JOIIN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREFT.
1819.
C 153s V.G
LONDON: PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
.
a
Page
CHARLES CHURCHILL
1
Introduction to the Rosciad
Character of a critical Fribble (frum the same)
10
Characters of Quin, Sheridan, and Garrick (from the
same)
12
From the Prophecy of Famine
18
ROBERT DODSLEY
26
Song
ib.
Song.—The Parting Kiss
27
ROBERT LLOYD
28
Chit-chat (an Imitation of Theocritus)
29
DAVID MALLET
38
William and Margaret
40
- EDWARD YOUNG
43
Introduction to the Night Thoughts-Uncertainty of
human Happiness Universality of human Misery
(from Night I.)
49
Apology for the Seriousness of the Subject (from
Night II.)
57
Madness of Men in Pursuit of Amusements (from the
58
Blessedness of the Son of Foresight (from the same) 59
Society necessary to Happiness (from the same) 60
Complaint for Narcissa (from Night III.)
61
Comparison of the Soul viewing the Prospects of Im-
mortality to the Prisoner enlarged from a Dungeon
(from Night IV.) .
64
The Danger to Virtue of Infection from the World
(from Night V.)
65
Insufficiency of Genius without Virtue (from Night VI.) 66
Description of the Man whose Thoughts are not of this
World (from Night VIII.)
The Love of Praise (from Satire I.)
69
Propensity of Man to false and fantastic Joys (from
Satire V.)
Characters of Women—The Wedded Wit (from the
70
The Astronomical Lady (from the same)
71
The Languid Lady (from the same)
The Swearer (from the same)
72
JOHN BROWN
73
From the Tragedy of Barbarossa
75
From the same
79
Selim's Soliloquy before the Insurrection
82
MICHAEL BRUCE
83
From the Elegy on Spring
85
From Lochleven
86
JAMES GRAINGER
88
Ode to Solitude
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
: 92
93
JAMES MERRICK
94
The Wish
95
WILLIAM FALCONER
96
Character of the Officers (from the Shipwreck) 100
Evening described--Midnight—The Ship weighing
Anchor and departing from the Haven (from the
106
Distress of the Vessel-Heaving of the Guns overboard
(from the same)
112
Council of Officers-Alberts Directions to prepare for
the last Extremities (from the same)
113
The Vessel going to pieces-Death of Albert (from
the same)
124
MARK AKENSIDE
127
From the Pleasures of Imagination (Book I.)
132
Final Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty (from the same) 139
Mental Beauty (from the same)
141
Pleasure next in the Passions of Grief, Pity, and In-
dignation (from Book II.)
142
Enjoyments of Genius in collecting her Stores for
Composition (from Book III.)
145
Conclusion (from the same)
148
Inscription for a Bust of Shakspeare
151
THOMAS CHATTERTON
152
Bristowe Tragedie, or the Dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin 163
CHRISTOPHER SMART
180
Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle (in the mock play
of a “ Trip to Cambridge, or the Grateful Fair") 185
Ode on an Eagle confined in a College Court
186
THOMAS GRAY
187
'The Bard: a Pindario Ode
192
On Education
197
On Vicissitude
201
Specimen of the Tragedy of Agrippina
203
CUTHBERT SHAW
211
From the Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady 212
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
218
The Tears of Scotland
224
Ode to Leven Water
226
Ode to Independence
227
ANONYMOUS.-Song (from the Shamrock, or Hibernian
Crosses, Dublin 1772)
232