THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF THE LATE

THOMAS WARTON, B. D.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD;

AND

POET LAUREATE.

FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

To which are now added

INSCRIPTIONUM ROMANARUM DELECTUS,

AND

AN INAUGURAL SPEECH

As Camden Profeffor of Hiftory, never before published.

TOGETHER WITH

MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS;

AND

NOTES,

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

BY RICHARD MANT, M. A.
FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

At the University Prefs, for W. HANWELL and J. PARKER;
and F. and C. RIVINGTON, London.

B

PREFACE

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

Page i

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Warton ix

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

The Triumph of Ifis, occafioned by Ifis, an Elegy 3

Elegy on the Death of the late Frederic Prince of

Wales

24

On the Death of King George the Second. To Mr. Se-

cretary Pitt

29

On the Marriage of the King. 1761. To her Majesty 38

On the Birth of the Prince of Wales. Written after the

Installation at Windfor, in the fame Year, 1762 46

Verfes on Sir Joshua Reynolds's painted Window at New

College, Oxford

Monody, written near Stratford on Avon

The Pleasures of Melancholy

INSCRIPTIONS.

54

63

68

Infcription in a Hermitage, at Anfley Hall, in Warwick-

fhire

Inscribed on a beautiful Grotto near the Water

Infcription over a calm and clear Spring in Blenheim

Gardens

Epitaph on Mr. Head

99

104

105

106

TRANSLATIONS AND PARAPHRASES.

Job, chap. xxxix.

Page 109

A Paftoral in the manner of Spenfer. From Theocritus,

Idyll. xx.

From Horace, Book iii. Od. 13.

112

116

From Horace, Book iii. Od. 18. After the manner of

Ode III. Written at Vale-royal Abbey in Cheshire 130

Ode IV. Solitude, at an Inn

140

Ode V. Sent to Mr. Upton, on his Edition of the Faerie

Queene

142

Ode VI. The Suicide

146

Ode VII. Sent to a Friend, on his leaving a favourite

Village in Hampshire

156

Ode VIII. Morning. The Author confined to College