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Thanks to the knight who props our game,

O ! may his coursers ne'er prove lame,

But ever 'gainst the day design'd

Be able to outfly the wind,

And every year bring him a prize,

'Till heaps on heaps the trophies rise.

A. RAMSAY.

If not important, they are at least pleasantly written. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

DO'DSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361. 402 ; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404, 442; viii. 124.)

VOL. V.' ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND AUTHORS.

138-43. Ode to death, translated from the French of the King of Prussia. By Dr. Hawkesworth (' D.N.B.').

143-6. Hymns of Dionysius translated from the Greek. By the Rev. Mr! Merrick (' D.N.B.').

147-55. Satire in the manner of Persius in a dialogue between Atticus and Eugenic, by the late Lord HerveyC D.N.B.').

156. To Mrs. Bindon at Bath, by Sir C. Hanbury Williams (' D.N.B.').

Possibly the wife of David Bindon, M.P. for Ennis, who died at Limerick on 22 July, 1760 (Gent. Mag., 1760, p. 347).

157. Mrs. Bindon's answer. 157-8. Sir Charles's reply.

158. To a lady, who sent compliments to a clergy- man upon the ten of hearts.

159-68. The grotto [in Richmond Gardens, erected by Queen Caroline, and placed under the care of Stephen Duck]. Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-House under the name of Peter Drake, a fisherman of Brentford. Printed in the year 1732, but never published.

A copy of the 1732 [1733] impression is in the B.M. Library catalogued under Drake, Peter. The first ten lines in the original are omitted by Dodsley.

169-74. The bee, the ant, and the sparrow, a fable address'd to Phebe and Kitty C. [Cotton] at board- ing school. By Dr. Cotton.

174-7. Ode on a storm [written on board H.M.S. Canterbury after she had lost her masts].

177-88. Isaiah xxxiv and xxxv.

188-201. Woodstock park, a poem. By William Harrison ('D.N.B.'), 1706.

202-3. A fit of the spleen, in imitation of Shake- spear. By Dr. Ibbot.

Benjamin Ibbot, D.D., died 1725 (' D.N.B.').

204-9. Hymn to Miss Laurence in the Pump-room Bath, 1753.

By William Hall, says Walpole. A further poem to her by Hall is on p. 308 of this volume of Dodsley. " This famous pump girl married, with an unblemished reputa

Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 173). 210-12. Letter to Corinna from a captain in Country quarters. By Isaac Hawkins Browne ' D.N.B.').
 * ion, an innkeeper at ' Speenhamlands ""

A piece of irony, an explanation of which s given in the ' Biog. Britannica,' ed. Kippis, ii. 652. Its moral tendency was much lauded by Bp. Hoadly and Lord Lyttelton. " Sir John " in the third line from the end was Sir John Gonson, the Middlesex justice.

213-18. A tale. By Mr. Merrick ('D.N.B.'). This is stated in the 1782 ed. to have been " versify ed from the conference between a popish priest and Villiers, Duke of Buck- ingham." It is also the subject of a poem by Robert Lloyd, called ' The New River Head.'

219-20. The wish.

221. The bears and bees, a fable.

222. A fragment.

223-5. The camelion, a fable after Monsieur De La Motte.

The last four pieces are also by Merrick.

226-38. Immortality, or the consolation of human life, a monody. By Thomas Den ton, M.A. ('D.N.B.').

This had been printed separately in 1754.

239-40. To the memory of a gentleman [George- Lewis Langton] who died on his travels to Rome,, written in 1738. By the Rev. Dr. Shipley [Bishop of St. Asaph].

240-43. Capt. T [Thomas], of Battereau's regi- ment in the Isle of Skie, to captain P [Price] at Fort Augustus.

" This military author was once student of Christ Church, Oxford, and a divine. He was mortally wounded and taken prisoner at the first attack on Belle-Isle, 8 April, 1761, being then quarter-master- general and lieutenant-colonel of Wnitmore's regi- ment of foot." Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 173.

This poem had previously appeared in 'The Student' (1751), ii. 155-8. In it occur the lines :

I scribble verses ! why, you know

I left the Muses long ago,

Deserted all the tuneful band,

To right the files and study Bland.

The reference is to Humphrey Eland's ' Treatise of Military Discipline.' An ac- count of Bland, supplementing that in the ' D.N.B.,' is in A. N. Campbell-Maclachlan's ' Duke of Cumberland,' pp. 154-8. Price- may have been the John Price who became major-general on account of his services at the battle of Laffeldt, July, 1747, and died at Breda in the following Nov. Cf. Camp- bell-Maclachlan's ' Duke of Cumberland/ p. 349.

244-8. To Mr. J. H. [John Hoadly] at the Temple,, occasioned by a translation of an epistle of Horace,.