thoughts into a narrower compass than profe-writers, the perufal of the poets is one of the most effectual means of ftoring the mind with moral knowledge, that is, with regard to the conduct of life, the most ufeful and important of all kinds of knowledge. Add to this, that what we learn in poetry, makes a much deeper impreffion upon the mind, and is likely to be much longer retained, than what we learn in profe. Addison is perhaps as fenfible a writer as either Shakespeare or Pope; yet how feldom do we hear the former quoted, and how fre quently the two latter! THE EDITOR. ADVER ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.. THE HE Editor begs leave to obferve, that, in compliance with the request of fome of the molt eminent mafters of academies, as well as of fome of the most accomplished governeffes of ladies' boarding-fchools in and about town, he has inferted a great number of pieces in this edition that are not to be found in the laft; and, in order to exprefs his gratitude to the public for the very favourable reception the book has hitherto met with, he has contrived to do fo without encreafing the price of the volume. At the fame time he mult be permitted to remark, that, as the judgment of youth ought to be exercifed as well as their memory, he has felected fome of thefe additional pieces from the critical works of our moft admired poets, fuch as the Duke of Buckingham's Effay on Poetry, and Mr. Pope's Effay on Criticism; for to cultivate the memory (as is too frequently done) to the total neglect of the judgment andthe other faculties of the mind, is, to fay the leaft, a very ridiculous and abfurd mode of inftruction. The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf; a Fable The Butterfly and Snail; a Fable Page The Cur, the Horfe, and the Shepherd's Dog; a Fable 11 The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly; a Fable The Pack-horfe and the Carrier; a Fable The Ape, the Parrot, and the Jack-daw; a Fable The Youth and the Philofopher; a Fable The Mifery of a Town-Life, and the Happiness of a Country-Life; exemplified in the Story of the Town- An Elegy written in a Country Church-yard The Ignorance of Man, with regard to the general Laws of the Univerfe, a Reafon why he fhould be contented with his prefent State Our Happiness partly owing to our Ignorance of fu- ture Events, partly to our Hope of a future State The Unreafonablenefs of our Complaints againft Pro- Order and Subordination prevail through all the Works. On Verfification - The Parting of Hector and Andromache. Ode for Mufic on St. Cecilia's Day On Greatnefs On Novelty with Pleasure Elegy to a young Nobleman, leaving the Univerfity 145 Sheep-Shearing; Song on that Occafion; Sheep- |