BY J. LANGHORN E. Son pure i noftri figli GUAR. LONDON: Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DEHONDT, at CONTENT S. Ode or the poetical Character. Ode, written in the Year 1746, Charles Rofs in the Action at Fontenoy, General Obfervations on the Oriental Eclogues, II. III. IV. General Obfervations on the Odes defcrip tive and allegorical, Page 105 115 118 Ode, to a Lady, on the Death The Manners. An Ode, The Paffions. An Ode for Mufic, An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, Dirge in Cymbeline, 125 127 Obfervations on the Ode to Pity, Ode to Fear, 155 Ode to Simplicity, ibid. 162 137 147 150 167 168 174 178 182 183 MEMOIRS MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR. THE a of religion, HE enthusiasm of poetry, like that has frequently a powerful influence on the conduct of life, and either throws it into the retreat of uniform obscurity, or marks it with irregularities that lead to mifery and difquiet. The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest talk upon the vigilance of reafon; and to bear those faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and A of |