Be thine Defpair, and scepter'd Care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He fpoke, and headlong from the mountain's height POST POST SCRIPT. H of a AVING now, by the advice and affiftance of my petunt lize, it has been thought proper that the farther progreis of its growth fhould here be stopp'd. From the foole and fugitive pieces, fome printed, others in manuscript, which for forty or fifty years paft have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perifh; I have here, according to the moft judicious opinions I could obtain in diftinguishing their merits, endeavour'd to felect and preferve the beft. The favourable reception which the formier volumes have met with, demands my warmest acknowledgments, and calls for all my care in compleating the Collection; and in this refpect, if it appear that I have not been altogether negligent, 1 fhall hope to be allowed the merit, which is all claim, of having furnished to the Public an elegant and polite Amulement. Little more need be added, than to return my thanks to several ingenious friends, who have obligingly contributed to this Entertainment. If the reader thould happen to find, what I hope he deldom will, any pieces which he may think unworthy of having been inferte; as it would ill become me to attribute his diflike of them. o mis own want of Taste, fo I am too conicious of my own deficiencies not to allow him to impute the infertion of them to mine. R. DODSLEY. HYMN to the Naiads, 1746 Ode to the Right Hon. Francis Earl of Huntingdon, 1747 Ode to the Right Rev. Benjamin Lord Bishop of Win Elegies, I. Written at the Covent of Haut Villers in Cham- 2. On the Maufoleum of Auguftus. To the Right 3. To the Right Hon. George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Newnham, written at Rome 1756 4. To an Officer, written at Rome, 1756 5. To a Friend fick, written at Rome, 1756 6. To another Friend, written at Rome, 1756 VOL. VI. B b Page 1 The Lyric Mufe to Mr. Mason On the Immortality of the Soul, in two Books The Arbour: An Ode to Contentment The Grotto: An Ode to Silence The Picture of Human Life 114 The Dropfical Man Paradife regained To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole Ode to Cupid on Valentine's Day To the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Cornwallis To a Lady very bandfome, but too fond of Dress An Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode 2. A Reply to a Copy of Verfes made in Imitation of Book III. Ode 2. of Horace 175 Infcription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Eafton, the Kerfes occafioned by feeing a Grotto built by Nine Sifters The Power of Mufic. A Song. Imitated from the Spanish Letter from Marseilles to my Sifters at Crux-Eafton, The Hiftory of Porfenna, King of Ruffia, in two Books 181 182 - 188 190 194 227 228 229 230 231 Te -- 177 ib. 178 179 To the Memory of an agreeable Lady buried in Marriage to a Perfon undeferving her An Elegy, written on Valentine Morning The Dowager Ode to the Hon. To Mijs **** **** Lady Mary Wortley Montague, to Sir William Yonge Mifs Soper's Answer to a Lady, who invited her to re- A Song Cynthia, an Elegiac Poem Dialogue to Chlorinda To Chlorinda The Fable of Ixion. To Chlorinda To Chlorinda A Tale. A Panegyric on Ale Ode to the Genius of Italy, occafioned by the Earl of Corke's going Abroad To Charles Pratt, Efq; Epifle from the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke to Mijs Lucy Atkins The Cheat's Apology T. Mr. Grenville on his intended Refignation To Mr. Garrick, on his erecting a Temple and Statue to On the Birth-Day of Shakespear. A Cento. Taken from bis Works An Ode to Sculpture True Refignation 265 269 272 275 279 284 286. 289 291 293 294 it. 295 208 300 304 Epiftle |