OF THE BRITISH POETS. VOL. II. PART I. CONTAINING SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS WHO FLOURISHED IN THE REIGNS OF QUEEN ANN GEORGE I. and GEORGE II. LONDON: Published by W. SUTTABY, CROSBY and Co. and SCATCHERD and LETTERMAN, Stationers Court. 1809. Corrall, Printer, Charing Cross. ALEXANDER POPE. 1688–1744. Page Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady 67 An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset 163 • 166 174 iv Il THAT CONTENTST TWITO Page 168 175 Speak on, speak thus ib. When-hope was quite sunk - e 176 At setting day and rising morn 177 The bonny grey-ey'd morning ib. WILLIAM COLLINS. 1790–1756. The Passions.-An Ode for Music 178 Ode to Fear 181 Ode to Evening 183 Dirge in Cymbeline 185 195 . A Pastoral Ballad 196 The Sky-Lark •/202 Jemmy Dawson.-A Ballad 203 Song.-Flavia 205 LORD LYTTELTON. 1709-1773. 208 Monody to the Memory of Lady Lyttelton 211 TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 290 098 207 1 The Bard.–Piodarickwake neoliin). ng The Progress of Poesy. -Pindaric SPECIMENS, OF THE BRITISH POETS, ALEXANDER POPE. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. An Heroi-Comical Poem. Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; CANTO I. WHAT dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, sing-This verse to Caryl, muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, goddess ! could compel A well-bred lord to' assault a gentle belle ? say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd, Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray, B |