THE

WORKS

OF THE

BRITISH POETS,

WITH

LIVES OF THE AUTHORS.

EDITED BY

ROBERT WALSH, JR.

VOL. XXIX.

GRAY, CHATTERTON, HARTE.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES EASTBURN.

William Brown, Printer.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIX.

SELECT POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY.

LIFE of Gray,

ENCOMIUMS ON GRAY.

To Mr. Gray, upon his odes. By David Gar-

rick, Esq.

Ode to Mr. Gray, on the backwardness of spring,

in the year 1742. By Richard West, Esq.

Epitaph on Mr. Gray's Monument in Westmin-

ster Abbey, by Mr. Mason,

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ODES.

On the Spring,

On the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a

tub of gold fishes,

On a distant prospect of Eton College,

To Adversity,

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The Progress of Poesy; a Pindaric ode,

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The Bard; a Pindaric Ode,

The Fatal Sisters; from the Norse Tongue,

The Descent of Odin; from the Norse Tongue,

The Triumphs of Owen; a fragment,

The Death of Hoel,

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53

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Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude,

An Imitation from the Gododin,

Translation of a passage from Statius,

Hymn to Ignorance; a fragment,

The Alliance of Education and Government;

a fragment,

Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West,

Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke,

Epitaph on Sir William Peere Williams,

Stanzas to Mr. Bentley; a fragment,

The Candidate; or the Cambridge Courtship, ib.

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Alcaic Fragment,

Lines addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa,

Elegiac verses occasioned by the sight of the

Plains where the battle of Trebia was fought,

Carmen,

Fragment of a Latin poem,

A Farewell to Florence,

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94.

96

ib.

97

ib.

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