eace 52
The Manners 54
The Passions 58
On the Death of Thomson 63
On the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland;
considered as the Subject of Poetry; inscribed to Mr.
John Home 66
An Epistle, addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition of
Shakespeare's Works 78
Dirge in Cymbeline, sung by Guiderus and Arviragus over
Fidele, supposed to be dead 87
Verses written on a Paper which contained a Piece of
Bride-cake, given to the Author by a Lady 89
To Miss Aurelia C----R, on her Weeping at her Sister's
Wedding 91
Sonnet 91
Song. The Sentiments borrowed from Shakespeare 92
On our late Taste in Music 94

Observations on the Oriental Eclogues, by Dr. Langhorne 101
Observations on the Odes, by the same 118

MEMOIR OF COLLINS.

"A Bard,
Who touched the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre."
HAYLEY.

No one can have reflected on the history of genius without being
impressed with a melancholy feeling at the obscurity in which the lives
of the poets of our country are, with few exceptions, involved. That
they lived, and wrote, and died, comprises nearly all that is known of
many, and, of others, the few facts which are preserved are often
records of privations, or sufferings, or errors. The cause of the
lamentable deficiency of materials for literary biography may, without
difficulty, be explained. The lives of authors are seldom marked by
events of an unusual character; and they rarely leave behind them the
most interesting work a writer could compose, and which would embrace
nearly all the important facts in his career, a "History of his Books,"
containing the motives which produced them, the various incidents
respecting their progress, and a faithful account of the bitter
disappointment, whether the object was fame or p