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CONTENTS. Account of the Siege of Syracuse; from Hampton's Translation of Polybius, 164 Account of the Fens in Lincolnshire, and their produce. 167 Singular Gratitude and Generosity of Sentiment between two Arabian Lords. 170 Extract from a little work, called Something New. 172 Analogy; from the Same. 174 The Defects of Modern Education. 176 Essay on Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws; by Voltaire. 178 On Flattery; by the same. 179 Derivation of the word Blessed, and of other old words. 181 Mr. Ferguson's Description of the Devil's Cave, at Castletown, in the Peak of Derbyshire. 182 A Censure of the present Taste in Music. 183 An Essay on Modern Novel. 184 A Dream; by Voltaire. 188 On Conversation; from the Town and Country Magazine. 189 On New Words; from the same. 190 POETRY. Extracts from Youth, a poem; by Hall Hartson. 192 Solima, an Arabian Eclogue; from poems consisting of translations from the Asiatic languages, by the very ingenious and learned Mr. Tomes 196 A Persian Song of Hafiz; from the same. 198 A Turkish Ode of Mesibi; from the same. 200 An Elegy upon Laura, in imitation of Petrarch. 201 Ode for the New Year, 1772, by William Whitehead, Esq; 205 The Ode performed at the opening of the New Exhibition Room of the Royal Incorporates Society of Artists of Great-Britian. 206 Inscription for the neglected Column in the Palace of St. Mark, at Florence; written in 1740, by the Hon. Horace Walpole, Esq; 208 The Entail, a Fable, by the same. 209 Epilogue to the Fashionable Lover. 210 The Downfall of Rome; from the celebrated Van Haron. 211 Verses by a young African Negro Woman at Boston in New England, 214 To a Lady who greatly admired the Spanish Poetry. 216 Upon the Earl of Chatham's Verse to Mr. Garrick. ibid. On the Royal Marriage - Act. 217 Barreaux's celebrated Sonnet, Grand Dieu! tes jugemens, &c. translated, 218 A Fragment of Milton: from the Italian. ibid. Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day, June 4, 1772. ibid. Against Life; from the Greek of Prosidippus. 219 For Life; from the Greek of Metrodorus. 220 The Miser and the Mouse; an Epigram from the Greek. ibid. 3 Impromptu, CONTENTS. Impromptu, by Mr. Horace Walpole, on seeing the Duchess of Queensbury walk at the Princess Dowager of Wales's Funeral. 220 An Epitaph on the Monument of the late worthy and Rev. Mr. Beighton, Vicar of Egham; by Mr. Garrick. ibid. Epitaph on Mrs. Taylor, in Patricksbourn church-yard, Kent. 221 Inscription upon the Monument of Mrs. Pritchard, lately put up at the Westend of Westminster-Abbey. ibid. Imitation of Buchanan. 222 A stanza on Death, by Voiture, translated. ibid. The Pelican and the Spider, a Fable. ibid. The Progress of Poetry. 225 On seeing Mr. Barry's Picture of Venus rising out of the Sea, at the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, May 8, 1772. 231 ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1772. The History of the Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours; by Joseph Priestly, L.L.D. F.R.S. 232 Lectures on the Feudal and English Laws; by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, L.L.D. 235 Travelers, by Joseph Marshall, Esq; 3 vols. 8 vo. 241 THE END.
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