And art thou dead?-so is my enmity- EPILOGUE. OUR author sent me, in an humble strain, To beg you'll bless the offspring of his brain! And I, your proxy, promised in your name, The child should live, at least six days of fame. I like the brat, but still his faults can find; And by the parent's leave will speak my mind. THE END OF YOUNG'S WORKS. 1 From Mr. West. Complains of his friend's silence, 3 From Mr. West. Approbation of the version; ridicule 2 27 To Mr. West. Journey from Genoa to Florence; elegiac verses occasioned by the sight of the plains where the battle of Trebia was fought, 4 To Mr. West. On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge; his aversion to metaphysical and mathematical studies, ib. 23 To his Mother. Death of the pope; intended departure for Rome; first and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring, 5 From Mr. West. Answer to the former; advises his correspondent not to give up poetry when he ap plies himself to the law, 6 To Mr. Walpole. Excuse for not writing to him, &c. 7 From Mr. West. A poetical epistle addressed to his Cambridge friend, taken in part from Tibullus, and a prose letter of Mr. Pope, 8 To Mr. West. Thanks him for his poetical epistle; complains of low spirits; Lady Walpole's death, and his concern for Mr. H. Walpole, 9 To Mr. Walpole. How he spends his own time in the country; meets with Mr. Southern, the dramatic poet, 10 To Mr. Walpole. Supposed manner in which Mr. ib. 12 To Mr. West. On his own leaving the University, ib. ib. 17 ib. 18 31 To Mr. West. Comic account of the Palace of the duke of Modena at Tivoli; the Anio; its cascade; situation of the town; villas of Horace and Mæcenas, and other remains of antiquity; modern aqueducts, and grand Roman ball, ib. 32 To Mr. West. Ludicrous allusion to ancient customs; Albano and its lake; Castel Gondolfo; prospect from the palace; an observation of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that part of Italy; Latin inscriptions, ancient and modern, 20 6 ib. 33 To his Mother. Road to Naples; beautiful situation of that city; its bay; of Baia, and several other antiquities; some account of the first discovery of an ancient town not known to be Herculaneum, 21 34 To his Father. Departure from Rome, and return to Florence; no likelihood of the conclave's rising; some of the cardinals dead; description of the Pretender, his sons, and court; procession at Naples; sight of the king and queen; mildness of the air at Florence, 7 14 To Mr. West. Monuments of the kings of France at St. 17 To his Father. 'Face of the country between Rheims 18 To Mr. West. Lyons; beauty of its environs; Roman antiquities, 19 From Mr. West. His wishes to accompany his friend; his retired life in London; address to his Lyre, in Latin Sapphics, on the prospect of Mr. Gray's return, 20 To his Mother. Lyons; excursion to the Grande Chartreuse; solemn and romantic approach to it; his reception there, and commendation of the monastery, 9 35 From Mr. West. On his quitting the Temple, and reason for it, 10 36 To Mr. West. Answer to the foregoing letter; some account of Naples and its environs, and of Mr. Walpole's and his return to Florence. ib. ib. 37 To his Mother. Excursion to Bologna; election of a pope; description of his person, with an odd speech which he made to the cardinals in the conclave, ib. 22 ib. 24 11 33 To his Father. Uncertainty of the route he shall take in his return to England; magnificence of the Italians in their reception of strangers; and parsimony when alone; the great applause which the new pope ineets with; one of his bon mots, ib. 39 To his Father. Total want of amusement at Florence, occasioned by the late emperor's funeral not being public; a procession to avert the ill effects of a late inundation; intention of going to Venice; an inva sion from the Neapolitans apprehended; the inhabitants of Tuscany dissatisfied with the government, 25 40 To Mr. West. The time of his departure from Florence 21 To his Father. Geneva; advantage of a free government exhibited in the very look of the people; beauty of the lake, and plenty of its fish, determined; alteration in his temper and spirits; difference between an Italian fair and an English one; a farewell to Florence and its prospects in Latin hexameters; imitation, in the same language, of an Italian sonnet, 41 From Mr. West. His spirits not as yet improved by country air; has begun to read Tacitus, but not to relish him, 42 To Mr. West. Earnest hopes for his friend's better health, as the warm weather comes on; defence of Tacitus, and his character; of the new Dunciad; sends him a speech from the first scene of his Agrippina, 25 26 Page. 27 1. On the Spring, 33 43 From Mr. West. Criticisms on his friend's tragic style; Latin hexameters on his own cough, *43 To Dr. Wharton. On taking his degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, - ib. |