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CON TENTS.

Pace

Essay on The ENglish Portny of THE NINETEENTH CENTURY........................ 9

Pacae

GIFFORD, WILLIAM (born 1756, died Love not Omnipotent................ 75

1826)........................... 84 Approach of Age ........... ........ ib.

Ridicule of the Della Crusca School .. 35 Strolling Players .................... 76

On the frivolous Themes of Poetasters 37 The Quack Nurse .................. 79

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Perversion of Historical Truth by Poetic SOTHEBY, WILLIAM (born 1757, died

- 1833) -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 80

Advice to Poets .................... Tivoli ........... ... . . . . . . . . . . . ib.

Life of Peter Pindar .. ------------- ib. The Grotto of Egeria................ 82

BAILLIE, JoANNA................. 41 || A*** ***:::::::::::::::::: *
The Syren's Song ................... 84

The Veteran ........,.... . . . . . . . . . ib. Dante's Exil ib
A Lover's Wish -------------------- 42 o: *.................... so
Description of a Lady ......... ..... ib. ancy Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "

Scene from Constantine Paleologus ... 43 || ROGERS, SAMUEL (born 1762)...... 86

The African Prince ................. 45 The Nun ........................... 87

The Kitten ......................... 46 The Alps at Daybreak .............. 89

Welcome Bat and Owlet Grey ....... 47 The Boy of Egremond .............. 90

- Italy in the Middle Ages ............ 91

MORE, HANNAH (born 1745, died 1832) 48 Don Garria ........................ 92

The Fatal Mistake .................. 49 Ithe Gipsy -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 94

The Deceitful Lover.. -- o: -------- 50 Affectionate Memory of the Dog ----- ib.

Eulogium of Mother Bunch's Tales .. 51 The Return of the Bee to the Hive ... ib.

Folly of the Dread of Death.......... * I on the Death of a sister........... . 95

BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT (born 1766, BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE (born

died 1823). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1762) ...... . . . 96

Harvest............................ Discovery of Madeira ............... ib.

Harvest Home .................. . . . .

Miseries of the Post Horse ........... WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (born

The Shepherd and the Spectre ....... 1770).......................... 102

The Orphan ........................ The Waggoner and the Country Inn... 103

Address to his Native Vale .......... We are Seven...................... 104

The Widow to her Hour-Glass ...... Louisa ............................. 106

The Nightingale and the Stock Dove... 107

CRABBE, GEORGE (born 1754, died To the Cuckoo........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ib.

1832) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ode ............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 108

The Sudden Death and Funeral...... The Council of Clermont ............ 113

Newspapers ........................ Dion .............................. ib.

The Choice of a Wife .............. Factory Children.................... 115

Sir Hector Blane ................... 69 The French Revolution.............. 116

The Village Priest ................... 70 Lines.... ......................... 118

Education after Marriage............ 71 Fact and an Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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