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JAMES PRIOR, Fellow of the Society of Antiquarics ; Member of the Royal Irish Academy;
Author of the Life of Goldsmith, Life of Burke, etc. etc.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.
NEW-YORK: GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.L.
1648 3.7
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
NEW-YORK: JOHN 7. TROW, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
XLIX AND LI ANN-STREET.
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THE TRAVELLER; OR A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY,
THE HERMIT ; A BALLAD,
THE DESERTED VILLAGE,
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON ; A POETICAL EPISTLE to LORD CLARE,
THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. (Now printed from the original MS.
in Goldsmith's handwriting,]
RETALIATION,
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
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The Clown's Reply,
Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a Roman Knight,
whom Cæsar forced upon the stage. Preserved by Macrobius,
The Logicians Refuted. In Imitation of Dean Swift,
Epigram on a Beautiful Youth, struck blind by Lightning,
Stanzas on the taking of Quebec, and death of General Wolfe,
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ib.
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Stanzas. “Weeping, murmuring, complaining,"
The Gift. To Iris,
An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize,
Description of an Author's Bed-chamber,
Song. “O Memory! thou fond deceiver !"
Song. “ The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part,"
The Double Transformation. A Tale,
A New Simile. In the manner of Swift,
Stanzas on Woman,
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,
Epitaph on Edward Purdon,
Epilogue to the Comedy of “The Sister,”
Verses, in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Sir George Baker's.
[Now first printed,]
Epitaph on Dr. Parnell,
Epilogue to the Comedy of “ The Good-Natured Man,"
Prologue to the Tragedy of “ Zobeide,"
An Epilogue, intended for Mrs. Bulkley,
Threnodia Augustalis ; sacred to the Memory of Her Royal Highness,
the Princess Dowager of Wales,
Letter, in Prose and Verse, to Mrs. Bunbury. (Now first printed,]
Epilogue to the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer; or the Mistakes
of a Night,"
Epilogue to the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer;" intended to be
spoken by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley,
Song “ Ah me! when shall I marry me?”
Epilogue; spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the Character of Harlequin,
at his benefit,
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THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. A COMEDY,
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER; OR THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT.
COMEDY,
SCENE FROM THE GRUMBLER ; A FARCE. (Now first printed,]