CONTENTS

OF THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

POEMS.

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,

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

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,

Stanzas.

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,

"Weeping, murmuring, complaining,"

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,"

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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,

DRAMAS.

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,]

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CRITICISM RELATING TO POETRY AND THE BELLES-

LETTRES.

[NOW FIRST COLLECTED.]

1. Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful,

II. Professor Mallet on the Mythology and Poetry of the Celtes,

III. Thornton and Colman's Connoisseur,

IV. Wilkie's Epigoniad, .

v. Home's Tragedy of Douglas, .

VI. Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius,

VII. Gray's Odes,

VIII. Wise's Inquiries concerning the First Inhabitants, Language,

Religion, Learning, and Letters of Europe, .

IX. Bayly's Introduction to Languages, Literary and Philosophical,

x. Burton's Greek Tragedies,

XI. Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,

In. Massey's Translation of Ovid's Fasti, .

XII. Marriott's Female Conduct; an Essay on the Art of Pleasing.

To be practised by the Fair Sex, before and after Marriage,

XIV. Barrett's Translation of Ovid's Epistles,

xv. Church's edition of Spenser's Faerie Queen,

XVI. Langhorne's Death of Adonis, from the Greek of Bion,

XVII. Ward on Oratory,

XVIII. Murphy's Orphan of China,

XIX. Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition; in a Letter

to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison,

xx. Thyer's Genuine Remains, in Prose and Verse, of Samuel Butler,

XXI The Twentieth Epistle of Horace to his Book modernized, by

the Author of Female Conduct,

XXII. Dunkin's Epistle to Lord Chesterfield,

xxm. Goguet on the Origin and Progress of Laws, Arts, and Sciences,

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