CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

AN Epistle to Edward Winnington, Esq.

An Epithalamium on Edwin and Annabel

A Morning Walk

A miscellaneous Meditation

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On the respective Uses of Reading and Conversation 50

The golden Verses of Pythagoras modernized

An Epilogue to the Aulularia of Plautus

A Dialogue between Addison and Horace

An Epistle to Matho

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An Epistle to Marcellus

133

A Reflection on the sight of Dr. Butt's Monument 179

A translated Epitaph on the Grecian Heroes slain in

An Inscription on the Standard of a Friendly Society 189

AN

EPISTLE

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EDWARD WINNINGTON, ESQ.*

AT ROME.

Describing a journey of two days in North Wales.

First Day.

WHILST you, my friend, on soft Italia's scenes,
By Claude depictur'd, and by Virgil sang,
Fix the charm'd eye-me native Britain calls
To mark her Summer-vesture's thousand folds,
Floating o'er forms that speak the master hand
Which on the universe spread Beauty's robe.
'Twas on the day-yes, on that very day,
When you from Vallombrosa raptur'd saw
The green Valdarno, the delicious domes
Of Tuscan Florence, and, in distant view,

Now Sir EDWARD WINNINGTON, Bart. of Stanford-Court, in the county of Worcester. This epistolary journal was written between twenty and thirty years ago. It has now undergone fuch correction as was consistent with a poem descriptive of real scenes, which the author never saw but once. Originally, and upon this revision, he has been studious, where he obviously professes to describe the truth, not to invent,

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