A COLLECTION

OF

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERSE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK. BOSTON • CHICAGO

ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA

MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

OF

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

VERSE

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY

MARGARET LYNN, A.M.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1907

All rights reserved

B

HARVARD
COLLEGE

LIBRARY
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COPYRIGHT, 1907,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1907.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

JOHN DRYDEN.

Mac-Flecknoe

From Absalom and Achitophel

Achitophel

Zimri .

Barzillai

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

Alexander's Feast

Song, from The Maiden Queen

Song, from The Indian Emperor

Song of Thamesis, from Albion and Albanius

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14

17

25

26

27

ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA.

The Change

To Mr. Pope

The Tree.

To the Nightingale

A Nocturnal Reverie.

DANIEL DEFOE.

From The True Born Englishman

37

ALEXANDER POPE.

Second Pastoral Summer

From An Essay on Criticism

The Rape of the Lock

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

From Essay on Man ·

From Moral Epistle II. Character of Atossa

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

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