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and "handed about until it got into print [Sept., 1746] very incorrectly." It was anonymous ; a copy is in the British Museum, and a life of the artist is in the ' D.N.B.' as Eccardt. In the notes to his copy of Dodsley are added by Horace Walpole the following details on the beauties : Miss Carpenter, " now Countess of Egremont " ; Miss Manners, " now married to Captain Hall " ; Miss Fanny Maccartney, " married to Mr. Greville " ; Lady Juliana Farmor, " since married to Mr. Penn " ; Miss Eliza- beth Evelyn, " since married to Peter Bathurst, esq."

96-8. Epilogue to Tamerlane, on the suppression of the Rebellion spoken by Mrs. Pritchard, in the character of the Comic Muse, 4th Nov., 1746. The last two are also by Horace Walpole.

99-108. The enthusiast, or the lover of nature, a poem. By the Rev. Joseph Warton, written in 1740.

This piece was printed separately and anonymously in 1744.

109-14. Ode to Fancy.

115-lb. Stanzas written on taking the air after a long illness.

The last two are also by Warton.

116-19. The two beavers, a fable. By the Rev. Mr. [Stephen] Duck ('D.N.B.'). Appeared in the ' Museum,' i. 295-7.

119-21. Contentment. Also by Duck.

121-7. The education of Achilles, by Mr. Robert Bedingfield [of Hertford College, Oxford].

Also in the ' Museum,' iii. 127-31.

127-34. An epistle from S. J., esq. [Soame Jenyns, ' D.N.B.'], in the country, to the Right. Hon. the Lord Lovelace in town. Written in the year 1735. Gray says (' Letters,' i. 187) :

"Mr. S. Jenyns now and then can write a good line or two, such as these :

Snatch us from all our little sorrows here. Calm every grief, and dry each childish tear."

134-7. To a lady in Town, soon after her leaving the country.

138-9. To the Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, presented with a collection of poems.

140-41. Chloe to Strephon, a song.

141. To the Earl of Chesterfield, on his being installed Knight of the Garter.

142-4. To a lady, sent with a present of shells and stones design'd for a grotto. Also in the ' Museum,' ii. 220-21.

144-6. To a lady in answer to a Letter wrote in a very fine hand.

Also in the ' Museum,' ii. 308-9.

146-67. The art of dancing, a poem inscribed to Lady Fanny Fielding. Written in 1730 [1728 is the date in his collected works].

^167-71. The modern fine gentleman. Written in 1746.


171-5. The modern fine lady [written in 1750 as a companion picture to the preceding]. This piece did not appear in the first four editions of vol. iii. It * will be found in vol. iv. (1755), pp. 73-6. "And Tubbs conveys the wretched exile down." Tubbs supplied " people of quality with hired equipages."

175-82. An essay on virtue, to the Hon. Philip Yorke.

The last ten pieces are also by Jenyns.

183-6. The female drum, or the origin of cards, a tale, Addressed to the Hon. Miss Carpenter, after- wards Countess of Egremont.

By the Hon. and Rev. Hervey Aston (Horace Walpole and Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 123). His name is familiar to the readers of Boswell, sub anno 1737. Gray writes ('Letters,' i. 187): "I like Mr. Aston Hervey's [sic] Fable." It had previously appeared in the ' Museum,' ii. 91-4.

187-9. To Mr. Fox [afterwards Lord Ilchester] in imitation of Horace, Ode IV. book 2. By the late Lord H y [Hervey]. Gray says (' Letters,' i. 186) :

"What then would the sickly Peer have done,, that spends so much time in admiring everything that has four legs and fretting at his own mis- fortune in having but two; and cursing his own politic head and feeble constitution, that won't let him be such a beast as he would wish."

189-96. To the same, from Hampton-Court, 1731. By the same.

197-9. The poet's prayer.

199-202. An epistle to a lady.

202-4. Genius, virtue, and reputation, a fable, from Mons. De la Motte, book v. fable 6.

Also appeared in the ' Museum,' iii. 51-3- This and the next piece are said by Walpole to be the work of the " Hon. Nich. Herbert, [seventh and] youngest son of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke." Two letters from Herbert to Spence are in Spence's ' Anecdotes " (ed. Singer, second ed., 1858), pp. 315-20 ; and when he was at Christ Church, Oxford, he contributed some Latin verses to the uni- versity collection on the accession of George II. Herbert died in 1775.

205-8. Marriage a la mode, or the two sparrows^ a fable from De la Motte, book iv. fable 21.

Also appeared in the ' Museum,' ii. 426-8.

208. An inscription, quercus loquitur.

209. Ode to wisdom, by a lady [Miss Elizabeth Carter, 'D.N.B.'].

She was surprised to find them in this Miscellany, " for Dodsley had them not from me."

213-14. To a gentleman [Dr. Walwyn, Prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral] on his intending to cut . down a grove to enlarge his prospect. Also by Miss Carter. These odes were much.