CONTENTS

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VOL. VI.

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CHARLES CHURCHILL

1

Introduction to the Rosciad

Character of a critical Fribble (from the same)

10

Characters of Quin, Sheridan, and Garrick (from the

same)

12

From the Prophecy of Famine

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

same)

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

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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.)

ib.

The Love of Praise (from Satire I.)

69

Propensity of Man to false and fantastic Joys (from

Satire V.)

ib.

Characters of Women—The Wedded Wit (from the

same)

70

The Astronomical Lady (from the same)

71

The Languid Lady (from the same)

ib.

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

Song

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

same)

106

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