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BRAMSTON, JAMES. The crooked sixpence, 1743.

1743 W. 1778 p. BROOKE, HENRY. Conrade.-Poetical Works, 3d ed., Dublin, 1792,

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iv. 391-414.

AKENSIDE, MARK. The pleasures of imagination, 3 books, 1744.

ANON. Wrote at Ocriculum in Italy. - John Wesley's Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems, Bristol, 1744, ii. 191–3.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN. The art of preserving health, 1744.

PRICE, HENRY. On the loss of the victory.-Lond. Mag., xiii. 565.

DAVIES, SNEYD. To N. Hardinge.-Nichols's Illustrations, 1817, i. 647–50. bef.1745 W. WARTON, THOMAS (the elder). To Baptista Turriano, from Fracastorius. -Poems on Several Occasions, 1748, pp. 76-91.

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The song of Judith.-Ib. 122-7.

A paraphrase on the xiiith chapter of Isaiah.—Ib. 209-12.

A farewell to poetry.-Ib. 219-22.

ANON. The Sunday-peasant, Dublin, 1745.

COOPER, JOHN GILBERT. The power of harmony, 2 books. -Poems on
Several Subjects, 1764, pp. 79-120.

DAVIES, SNEYD. To C[harles] P[ratt], Esq.-J. Whaley's Collection, 1745,
pp. 236-9.

A night thought.-Ib. 240-41.

To the Rev. T[imothy] T[homas], D.D.-Ib. 328-35.

HOBSON, THOMAS. Christianity, the light of the moral world, 1745

THOMPSON, WILLIAM. Sickness, 1745.2

WARTON, THOMAS (the younger).? Five pastoral eclogues, 1745

GIBBONS, THOMAS. A poem on the rebellion in 1745.-Juvenilia, 1750,
Pp. 244-59.

YOUNG, EDWARD. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. -
Works, 1852, ii. 199–216.

c. 1745 W. CUMBERLAND, RICHARD. [Translation from Virgil's third Georgic.]Memoirs, 1807, i. 83-7.

1746

ANON. A Bacchanalian rhapsody.-The Museum, or Literary and His

torical Register [Dodsley's Museum], 1746, i. 336-9.

ANON. Advice to the fair sex.-Ib. ii. 223-4.

ANON. The nocturnal excursion of fancy.-Gent. Mag., xvi. 102-3.

"TOM SOBER." Small-beer.-Ib. 553.

1746 w. 1758 p. AKENSIDE, MARK. Hymn to the naiads.-Works, 1835, pp. 239–56. 1747 ANON. Pleasures of the night.-Lond. Mag., xvi. 239–40.

1748

1 1745

MALLET, DAVID. Amyntor and Theodora, or the hermit, 3 cantos, 1747.

R., R. The jealous lover's excuse.-Lond. Mag., xvi. 45.

S., G. Description of paradise, from Masenius.-Gent. Mag., xvii. 242.

STEPHENS, EDWARD. The dying heathen. -Miscellaneous Poems, Cirencester, 1747, pp. 43-5.

Universal praise. -Ib. 45-50.

WARTON, THOMAS (the younger). The pleasures of melancholy.-Poetical
Works, ed. Mant, Oxford, 1802, i. 68–95.

ANON. An inscription.-Dodsley's Miscellany, 1748, iii. 202.

ANON. Marriage.-Scots. Mag., x. 78–82.

ANON. The t— d. Gent. Mag., xviii. 135.

ANON. Verses from the Jacobite Journal.-Ib. 135.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, of Bangour. The flowers. -Poems and Songs, ed.

J. Paterson, Edin., 1850, pp. 75-6.

ANON. War, a poem in blank verse, 1745. Not seen.

• Thompson later removed two long passages from this work and printed them, as Coresus and Callirhot and On Mr. Pope's Works, in his Poems on Several Occasions, Oxford, 1757, i. 85-102, 122–31.

1748

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, of Bangour. Speech of Randolph [book ii of his MS. poem The Bruce].-Ib. 105-11.

Doves.-Ib. 112.

L., H. Paraphrase of the first psalm.-Univ. Mag., iii. 223.

LEAPOR, MARY. The fields of melancholy and chearfulness.- Poems upon
Several Occasions, 1748, pp. 145-53.

"A SCHOLAR OF WINCHESTER SCHOOL." Poverty, in imitation of Mr.
Philips's Splendid Shilling.-Gent. Mag., xviii. 88.

SHIELLS, ROBERT. Marriage, 1748.

TAPERELL, JOHN. Revenge.-Poems on Several Occasions, 2d ed., 1750, pp. 71-6.

1748 w. 1803 p. COWPER, WILLIAM. Verses on finding the heel of a shoe.-Poems, ed. J. C. Bailey, 1905, pp. 1-2.

1749

1750

1750?

ANON. A hymn to the Author of the new year.-Scots Mag., xi. 20.
ANON. Panegyrick on a louse, in the stile of Milton.-Lond. Mag., xviii.
474.

ANON. Adam banish'd [translation of Grotius's Adamus Exul, act i].—
Gent. Mag., xix. 67-9.

BROWNE, MOSES. Sunday thoughts.-See R. Freeman's Kentish Poets,
Canterbury, 1821, ii. 168–75.

HAWKESWORTH, JOHN. God is love. -Gent. Mag., xix. 467.

JONES, HENRY. To Doctor Green. -Poems, 1749, pp. 20-22.

To a friend on his marriage.-Ib. 134-6.

ROLT, RICHARD. Cambria, 3 books, 2d ed., 1749.

A poem to Sir W. W. Wynne, 1749.

WILKS, Rev. Mr. The departure of a Christian; in Miltonic verse.-Newcastle General Mag., 1749, p. 101.

ANON. The empty purse, a poem in Miltonics, 1750.

ANON. A rhapsody.-Scots Mag., xii. 264-5.

FREE, JOHN. Stigand, or the Antigallican, in Miltonic verse, 1750.

GIBBONS, THOMAS. On the death of several young acquaintance. — Juvenilia, 1750, pp. 146–8.

A morning-thought.-Ib. 148-50.

The distress and relief.-Ib. 153-6.

An elegiac poem, to Isaac Watts.—Ib. 173–98.

Psalm xxix.-Ib. 218-21.

The plague of locusts: Joel, chap. ii.-Ib. 234-7.

On the earthquake.-Ib. 238-41.

"PHILALETHES." Pandaemonium, inscrib'd to William Lauder, 1750.

SMART, CHRISTOPHER. On the eternity of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge
Prize Poems, 1750-1806, Camb. 1817, i. 1–7.

WARTON, THOMAS (the younger). A panegyric on Oxford ale.-Works,
1802, ii. 181-8.

ARNOLD, CORNELIUS. Distress.-Poems on Several Occasions, 1757, pp.

139-49.

c. 1750 W. BROWN, JOHN, D. D. Fragment of a rhapsody, written at the lakes in Westmoreland.-Richard Cumberland's Odes, 1776, p. 5.

c. 1750 w. 1760 p. HAMILTON, WILLIAM, of Bangour. The parting of Hector and Andromache, from the Iliad.-Poems and Songs, 1850, pp. 165-7.

1751

First scene of the Philoctetes of Sophocles.-Ib. 171-2.

ANON. Il meditante.-Lond. Mag., xx. 603-4, xxi. 84-5.

ANON. Wisdom, 1751.

ARNOLD, CORNELIUS. Commerce, 1751.

"CLERICUS." The song of Deborah paraphrased.-The Student, Oxford, 1751, ii. 33-7.

DODD, WILLIAM. A day in vacation at college, a burlesque, 1751.

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DRAPER, W. H. The morning walk, 1751.

PARSONS, PHIL. "Pensive and sad beneath the secret shade.' -Academiae
Cantabrigiensis Luctus in Obitum Frederici .. Walliae Principis,
Camb., 1751, Q2, verso.

HINCHLIFFE, JOHN. "If e'er the Muse could paint excess of woe.".

Ib. V.

CARTER, GILBERT.

verso.

"Enthron'd imperial on her gilded carr."-Ib. Cc,

SHARP, J. "Why doth Britannia, clad in sable weed."-Ib. Ll2, verso.
LONG, ROGER. "Yes, I will weep for thy untimely fate.”—Ib. Pp.
SMART, CHRISTOPHER. On the immensity of the Supreme Being.-Cam-
bridge Prize Poems, i. 9-14.

STEPHENS, EDWARD. A poem on a violent storm, 1751.

STORMONT, DAVID, Lord Viscount. On Prince Frederick's death. -Nichols's
Collection, 1782, viii. 195–9.

WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM. Hymn to the nymph of Bristol spring, 1751.
HARRIS, JAMES. Concord.-Poetical Calendar, 1763, xii. 53–9.

ANON. Life.-Escapes of a Poetical Genius, 1752, pp. 34-41.

Death.-Ib. 42-8.

ANON. The noctuary, or an address from the tombs, 1752.
"FANTOM." Solitude.-Scots Mag., xiv. 500.

SMART, CHRISTOPHER. On the omniscience of the Supreme Being.-Cam-
bridge Prize Poems, i. 15-22.

The hop-garden, a georgic, 2 books. -Poems on Several Occasions, 1752, pp. 101-35.

DODSLEY, ROBERT. Public virtue, 3 books: i, Agriculture, 3 cantos, 1753.
SMART, CHRISTOPHER. On the power of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge
Prize Poems, i. 23-8.

ANON. Ode on the death of Mr. Pelham, 1754.-See Scots Mag., xvi. 159.
ANON. The triumph of death, 1754.

BLACKLOCK, THOMAS. Elegy: To the memory of Constantia.- Poems, 3d
ed., 1756, pp. 144-52.

A soliloquy.-Ib. 153-67.

FORTESCUE, JAMES. Pomery-hill, 1754.-See Gent. Mag., xxiv. 245.

GREY, RICHARD. Of the immortality of the soul, translated from I. H.
Browne, 1754.

MILLER, JOHN. An idea of God, from Racine's Esther.-Poems on Several
Occasions, 1754, pp. 206-7.

On love, a Miltonic essay.-Ib. 208-12.

PHILIPS, JOHN. (?) The fall of Chloe's piss-pot.-Lond. Mag., xxiii. 85-6.
WEEKES, NATHANIEL. Barbados, 1754.-See Mo. Rev., xi. 325-9.

WILLS, JAMES. De arte graphica, or the art of painting, translated from
Dufresnoy, [2d ed.], 1765.

BALLY, GEORGE. On the justice of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge Prize
Poems, i. 29-45.

DODSLEY, ROBERT. Verses on arrival at the Leasowes. - Shenstone's
Works, 1764, ii. 380–82.

• For convenience of reference, the titles in books which have signature letters instead of pagination are arranged as they occur in the volumes, and only the leaf on which the poem begins is indicated.

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ANON. Grace, 1752. In blank verse: Mo. Rev., vi. 240. Not seen.

ANON. The vindication, or day-thoughts, occasioned by The Complaint, or Night-thoughts, 1753. In blank verse: ib. ix. 235-6. Not seen.

HARROD, WILLIAM. Sevenoke, 1753. In blank verse: ib. viii. 392. Not seen.

JONES, HENRY. The relief, or day-thoughts, occasioned by The Complaint, or Nightthoughts, 1754: see ib. x. 304. Not seen; may be in blank verse.

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ANON. From a clergyman to his friend.-Gent. Mag., xxv. 326.
ANON. On a late most terrible calamity.-Lond. Mag., xxiv. 624-5.
ANON. Religious conscience, in imitation of Young's Night Thoughts,
1755.-See Mo. Rev., xii. 509-10.

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SCOTT, J. N. An essay towards a translation of Homer, 1755.-See Mo.
Rev., xii. 355-70.

COMBERBACH, ROGER. Translation of an ode of Horace.-The Contest,
1755 (?): see Mo. Rev., xiii. 95–9.

[An "eclogue," or letter in verse to John Byrom.]—Byrom's Remains, ed. R. Parkinson, Chetham Soc., 1857, ii. 555-7.

EMILY, CHARLES. The praises of Isis.-A Collection of Poems by Several
Hands [Pearch's Supplement to Dodsley], new ed., 1783, i. 26–38.
JEMMAT, CATHARINE. On the recovery of Lord Molesworth.-Miscellanies,

1771, pp. 19-20.

KEATE, GEORGE. Ancient and modern Rome, 1760.

SMART, CHRISTOPHER. On the goodness of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge
Prize Poems, i. 47–52.

1755 w. 1785 p. LOVIBOND, EDWARD. On Lady Pomfret's presenting the university of Oxford with statues.-Chalmers's English Poets, xvi. 290-1.

c. 1755 W. CUMBERLAND, RICHARD. [Fragment of an epic on India.]-Memoirs, 1807,

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1757

1 1755

2 1756

i. 169-74.

ANON. The old elm in Hurworth, Durham.-Gent. Mag., xxvi. 247–8.
ANON. The gout, a mock-heroic poem in imitation of the Splendid Shilling.
-Ib. 584.

ANON. Sophronia, 5 books, 1756.

Averay, Robert. Britannia and the gods in council, a dramatic poem,
1756.-See Mo. Rev., xv. 84-5.

BALLY, GEORGE. On the wisdom of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge Prize
Poems, i. 53-69.

DRUMMOND, THOMAS. Grotto of Calypso.- Poems Sacred to Religion, etc.,
1756: see Mo. Rev., xv. 128-35.

Morning adoration. - Ib.

Lewis, Richard ("PETER POUNCE"). The Robin-Hood society, a satire, 1756.

M., R. The dignity of knowledge.-Literary Magazine, or Universal Review, 1756, pp. 260-61.

REED, JOSEPH. A British philippic, 1756.

KEATE, GEORGE. The Helvetiad.-Poetical Works, 1781, i. 83-124.
STRATFORD, THOMAS. Four pastoral essays, Dublin, 1770.

ANDREWS, ROBERT. Upon seeing a fair matron at the theatre, an ode.-
Eidyllia, Edin., 1757, PP. 23-4.

Virtue's expostulation with the British poets, an ode.-Ib. 25-6.
To adversity, an ode.-Ib. 26-7.

Philocles, a monody.-Ib. 28-39.

The muses triumphant over Venus.-Ib. 40-45.

To Lord Shaftsbury's ghost, an ode.-Ib. 47.

ANON. Britain, 3 books, Edin., 1757.-See Crit. Rev., iv. 279-80.

ANON. The great shepherd, 3 parts, 1757.-See Mo. Rev., xvi. 400–402.
BALLY, GEORGE. The day of judgment. - Cambridge Prize Poems, i. 299-

320.

CLARKE, EDWARD. A letter to a friend in Italy, etc., 1755. In blank verse: Mo. Rev., xiii. 456. Not seen.

GREENE, JOHN. Beauty, 1756. In blank verse: ib. xiv. 558-9. Not seen.

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1760

BARNARD, EDWARD. The competitors. - Virtue the Source of Pleasure, 1757, pp. 17-21.

DOBSON, WILLIAM. Anti-Lucretius, [from] Cardinal de Polignac, by the translator of Paradise Lost, 1757.

DYER, JOHN. The fleece, 4 books, 1757.

GLYNN, Robert. The day of judgment.-Cambridge Prize Poems, i. 71-82.
HIGHMORE, SUSANNAH (Mrs. DUNCOMBE). Ambition, 1757.-See Crit.
Rev., iii. 557.

"WINDSOR." Upon a Birmingham halpenny.-Gent. Mag., xxvii. 325.
DAVIES, SNEYD. Caractacus.-J. Nichols's Illustrations, 1817, i. 668–71.
NEWCOMB, THOMAS. Mr. Hervey's Meditations and Contemplations (after
the manner of Dr. Young), 2 vols., 1764.-See Mo. Rev., xxx. 488.
ANON. Euthemia, or the power of harmony, 1758.-See Crit. Rev., vi.
344-5.

ANON. Isaiah xxiv. - Dodsley's Miscellany, 1758, v. 177-83.

Isaiah xxxv.-Ib. 183-8.

ANON. Reason, 1758.-See Crit. Rev., vi. 171-4.

BALLY, GEORGE. The providence of the Supreme Being.-Cambridge Prize
Poems, i. 83-96.

BUSHE, AMYAS. Socrates, a dramatic poem, 5 acts, 1758.-See Crit. Rev.,
vi. 89-95.

DOBSON, WILLIAM. The Prussian campaign, 1758.—See ib. 81-3.

DODD, WILLIAM. Thoughts on the glorious epiphany of the Lord Jesus
Christ, 1758.

"RESTAURATUS." Verses in R. Drake's Essay on the Gout, 1758. - See
Crit. Rev., vi. 493-4.

WOTY, WILLIAM ("JEMMY COPYWELL"). Soliloquy on the approach of term.-Shrubs of Parnassus, 1760, pp. 14-16.

The spouting-club.—Ib. 87–98.

PYE, Mrs. H. Philanthe.-Poems, 2d ed., 1772, pp. 41-4.

FRANCKLIN, THOMAS. The tragedies of Sophocles, 2 vols., 1758-9.
AKENSIDE, MARK. Inscriptions i-iv, vi-viii.—Works, 1835, pp. 257-62.
ANON. The visitations of the Almighty, part i, 1759.-See Mo. Rev., xx.
17-20.

COOPER, E. Bewdley, a descriptive poem, 2 books.-Collection of Elegiac
Poesy, etc., 1760, pp. 53-77.

FORTESCUE, JAMES. Contemplation.-In Dissertations, Essays, etc., 1759:
see Mo. Rev., xxi. 293-4.

GORDON, ALEXANDER. The Prussiad, an heroick poem, 1759.
PORTEUS, BEILBY. Death.-Cambridge Prize Poems, i. 97–109.
WOTY, WILLIAM. Pudding.-Shrubs of Parnassus, 1760, pp. 46–7.
ANON. An essay on the evening and night.-Gent. Mag., xxx. 586-7.
ANON. (JOHN PATRICK?). Quebec, in imitation of the Miltonic stile, 1760.-
See Crit. Rev., x. 79.

ANON. Verses to the king, 1760.-See Mo. Rev., xxiii. 411.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, of Bangour. To a gentleman going to travel.-Poems
and Songs, 1850, pp. 94-101.

HAYDEN, G. The birthday of Miss W.-Royal Female Mag., ii. 84-5.
LANGHORNE, JOHN. Poem to Handel. - Poetical Works, 1766, i. 55-66.
NEWCOMB, THOMAS. The retired penitent, a poetical version of one of
Young's moral contemplations, 1760.-See Mo. Rev., xxiii. 330–31.
WOTY, WILLIAM. A tankard of porter.-Shrubs of Parnassus, 1760, pp.

20-22.

The corkscrew. -Ib. 26-8.

The tobacco-stopper.-Ib. 36-8.

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