AN ESSAY
Reading edition
ON THE
LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS;
In TWO LETTERS inscribed to
The Right Honourable JAMES Lord Deskfoord.A
By JOHN OGILVIE, A.M.
LONDON: Printed for G. Keith, at the Bible-and-Crown in Gracechurch-Street.
M. DCC. LXII.
Although the facsimile includes this full Table of Contents, only the introductory section—the Essay on Lyric Poetry— was reprinted.
CONTENTS.
An ESSAY on the Lyric Poetry of the ANCIENTS.
Letter I. Page iii
Letter II. xxxix
ODES, &c.
To Melancholy 1
To the Genius of Shakespear 8
To Time 16
To Sleep 23
To Evening 29
To Innocence 36
The Day of JUDGMENT. A Poem.
Book I. 49
Book II. 79
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
The 148th Psalm paraphrased 107
Verses to a Lady, with Voltaire’s Temple of Taste 112
A Town Eclogue 116
Jupiter and the Clown. A Fable 120
An Elegy on the Death of a Linnet 128
An Evening Piece 131
To Miss —— with a Flower 134
Sappho’s Ode to Venus translated 136
To the Memory of Mrs. —— 138
To the Memory of Mr. H*** M***. An Elegy 143
To the Memory of the late pious, and ingenious Mr. Hervey 147
The Third Chapter of Habakkuk paraphrased 152