THE

POEMS

OF

GARTH, AND TICKELL.

Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

CONTENTS.

Page

SIR SAMUEL GARTH.

LIFE of Garth, by Dr. Johnson.......

Encomiums on Garth...

7

13...18

On her Majesty's Statue in St. Paul's Church-yard....... 109

On the New Conspiracy, 1716.....

On the King of Spain.......

..........

110

111

111

113

Verses written for the toasting Glasses of the Kit-cat

Club....

To Mr. Gay, on his Poems.....

To the merry Poetaster at Saddlers' Hall, Cheapside 113

PROLOGUES-Designed for Tamerlane

To the Music-meeting at York Buildings.

To the Cornish Squire......

....

114

115

115

...

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Spoken at the opening of the Queen's Theatre....... 117

Page

THOMAS TICKELL.

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Kensington Garden.....

Oxford.......

LIFE of Tickell, by Dr. Johnson..........

To bis Excellency the Lord Privy Seal..

On the Prospect of Peace.......

The Royal Progress..

168

MISCELLANIES.

On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.......

...

187

192

193

195

On Queen Caroline's rebuilding the Lodgings of the

199

200

Prologue to the University of Oxford

Colin and Lucy, a Ballad....

Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus............

To Apollo making Love.........................

.......

EPISTLES.

To the supposed Author of the Spectator......

To Mr. Addison, on his Opera of Rosamond..

To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato......

210

212

214

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison.. 215

From a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon...... 219

To Mrs. Lowther, on her Marriage.......

226

To a Lady before Marriage.

226

To a Lady, with a Present of Flowers..

229

To Gilfred Lawson, Esq. on a Lady's Picture.....

230

To Sir Godfrey Kneller

231

ODES.

On the Earl of Stanhope's Voyage to France, 1718...... 234

Inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland

To a Lady, with the Description of the Phoenix

Description of the Phoenix.........