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Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

Prof. J. Nichol

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Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Extracts from the Essay on Man :

Book I

Book IV

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Mark Pattison

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Moral Essays, I

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated. To

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

156

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

Extract from The Last Day, Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

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Edmund W. Gosse 189

. Austin Dobson 194

Prof. E. Dowden 206

George Saintsbury 217

George Saintsbury 222

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JOHN BYROM (1691–1763)

The Nimmers

Careless Content

On the Origin of Evil

Epigrams

RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)

Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)

Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and Fall of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

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JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

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