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Begins, The pensive Train of Contemplation sweet. 44 stanzas.
Rev. (with some extracts) in The Gentleman's Mag., December, 1775, xlv. 580-1.

An elegy written on a poor, honest man, who lived and died an honour to his species in the most enviable obscurity. In The Gentleman's Mag., July, 1775, xlv. 339-40.
[897  
Begins, Low in a fruitful vale, where Naiads guide. 17 stanzas.

1776. [John Duncombe.] In 1776 "An Oxonian" pirated An evening contemplation in a college (see no. 868) as follows:
A parody on Gray's Elegy. By an Oxonian. London. Printed for the author, and sold by J. Wheble, 22, Fleet St. 1776.
[898  
4to, pp. 13.   BM (163. m. 20)
It now began, The bell now tolls the hour of closing gates, and there were a score or so of other verbal alterations. It sold for 1/-. Rev. and exposed in The Monthly Rev., April, 1776, liv. 340. Cf. N. & Q., Aug. 17, 1861, 3d ser. xii. 128.

1777. An elegy, written in Westminster Hall during the Long Vacation. In The repository, 1777, ii. 77-82.
[899  
Also in same, 2d edition, 1783, and in same, 3d edition, 1790, ii. 51-6; in Hamilton, v. 9-10.
Begins, The courts are shut—departed every judge. 34 stanzas.

Thomas Warton. Ode written at Vale-Royal Abby [sic] in Cheshire. In his Poems, a new edition, with additions, London, T. Becket, 1777, 12mo, pp. 30-34.
[899a  
Begins, As Evening slowly spreads his mantle hoar. 23 stanzas. Shows strongly the influence of Gray. Miss Clarissa Rinaker, The Sewanee Rev., April, 1915, xxiii. 153, n. 21, thinks there was no prior edition.

1778. Richard Cumberland. Evening. An elegy. To the memory of the late Marquis of Granby. In his Miscellaneous poems, London, 1778, pp. 17-21.
BM (11643. k. 25)   [900  
Begins, Now sinks the day-star to his wat'ry bed. 20 stanzas.

— Morning. An elegy. To the memory of the late Marquis of Tavistock. In his Miscellaneous poems, London, 1778, pp. 11-16.
[901  
Begins, The last and brightest of the starry train. 20 stanzas.

John Duncombe. An elegy written in Canterbury Cathedral. Canterbury. Printed by Simmons & Kirkby for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, London. 1778.
[902  
4to, pp. [vi], 18. Engr. t.-p. Price, 1/-.   BM
Begins, Within these long-drawn isles, where Cynthia's light. 41 stanzas. Merely a loose imitation. Rev. unfavorably in The London Rev., 1778, App., vii. 504.


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