their Guardians are folicitous that they shall only read the best books, there can be no danger of a work of this kind's being difagreeable. It offers, in a very small compass, the very flower of our Poetry, and that of a kind adapted to the sex fuppofed to be its readers. Poetry is an art, which no young Lady can, or ought to be wholly ignorant of. The pleasure which it gives and indeed the necessity of knowing enough of it to mix in modern conversation, will evince the usefulness of my design; which is to fupply the highest and the most innocent entertainment at the smallest expence; as the Poems in this collection, if fold fingly, would amount to ten times the price of what I am able to afford the prefent.

CON

CONTENTS.

DEVOΤΙΟΝΑL.

DEITY a Poem

Adam's Morning Hymn

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Meffiah, a facred Eclogue, by Mr. Pope

The Universal Prayer, by the Same

Night Thoughts, by Dr. Young

Hymns, by Mr. Addison

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The Day of Judgment, by Mr. Ogilvie

MORAL.

Edwin and Angelina, by Dr. Goldsmith

Fables, by Mr. Moore

- The Nightingale and Glow-worm

Hymen and Death

The Wolf, the Sheep, and the Lamb

The Story of Lavinia, by Mr. Thompson
Advice to a Lady, by the Hon. Mr. N
A Fairy Tale, by Dr. Parnell
A Night Piece on Death, by the Same

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112

120

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ENTERTAINING.

The Parting of Hector and Andromache, from Homer's

Iliad, Book 6, translated by Mr. Pope.

125

The Death of Dido, from Virgil's Æneid, Book 4,

translated by Mr. Dryden

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131

The Story of Narcissus, from Ovid; translated by Mr.

Addifon

141

The Story of Ceyx and Alcyone, from Ovid, translated

by Mr. Dryden

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146

Baucis and Philemon, imitated from the 8th Book of

Ovid, by Dean Swist

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156

The Story of Teribazus and Ariana, by Mr. Glover 163

The Grand Question debated, Sc. by Dean Swift

248

Elegy written in a Country Church Yard, by Gray 257

Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music, by Dryden, 263

The Jugglers, by Gay

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270

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, by

FOR

YOUNG LADIES.

PART I.

DEVOΤΙΟNAL.

DEITY.

This Poem was originally published without any fuccefs :
it lay dormant for fome time, till it was taken notice of
by FIELDING and HARVEY: fince that, it has been
esteemed as it merits. The most striking passages are
here selected.

T

ΟΜΝΙΡRESENCE.

HRO' the unmeasurable tracts of space,
Go Muse divine! and present Godhead trace!
Should'st thou above the heav'n of heav'ns afcend,
Could'st thou below the depth of depths descend;
Could thy fond flight beyond the starry sphere,
The radiant morning's lucid pinions bear!