I’ve often wish’d that I had clear,    For life, six hundred pounds a-year,    A handsome house to lodge a friend,    A river at my garden’s end,    A terrace-walk, and…

    IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.     ‘Tis true, my lord, I gave my word,    I would be with you, June the third;    Changed it to August,…

Beneath the shade a spreading Beech displays,Hylas and Aegon sung their rural lays,This mourn’d a faithless, that an absent Love,And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d…

When wise Ulysses, from his native coastLong kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d,Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone,To all his friends, and…

   What is prudery?     ‘Tis a bledam,    Seen with wit and beauty seldom.    ‘Tis a fear that starts at shadows.    Tis, (no, ’tisn’t) like Miss Meadows.    ‘Tis a virgin hard…

    ARGUMENT.     OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS.     I. False notions of happiness, philosophical and popular, answered from ver. 19 to…

   ARGUMENT.     OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY.     I. The whole universe one system of society, ver. 7, &c. Nothing made…

    ARGUMENT.     OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL.     I. The business of Man not to pry into God,…

    THE DESIGN.     Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon’s expression) come home to men’s…

I That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a…