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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OT

JOHNSON, PARNELL, GRAY,

AND

SMOLLETT.

With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and

Erplanatory Notes.

THE TEXT EDITED BY CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM P. NI MMO.

1868,

CONTENTS

JOHNSON'S POEMS.

PAGS

To Lady Firebrace, ai Bury

PAGE

Thc Life of Samuel Johnson 3 MISCELLANEOUS :-

London : a Poem in imitation of

Silk Network Purse of her

the Third Satire of Juvenal,

own Weaving

49

1738

17 Epigram on George II. and Col-

The Vanity of Human Wishes. In

ley Cibber, Esq.

50

imitation of the Tenth Satire of Stella in Mourning

50

Juvenal

25 To Stella

51

Verses Written at the Request

PROLOGUES :-

of a Gentleman to whom a

Prologue Spoken by Mr Gar-

Lady had given a Sprig of

rick, at the Opening of the Myrtle

61

Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane,

1747.

37 Assizes

52

Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick To Lycè, an Elderly Lady 53

before the Masque of Comus,' On the Death of Mr Robert Le-

acted for the benefit of Mil.

vett, a Praotiser in Physio 54

ton's Grand-daughter. 39 Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an

Prologue to Goldsmith's Comedy

Itinerant Musician

55

of The Good-Natured Man,' Epitaph on Sir Thomas Flanmer,

1769.

40 Bart.

55

Prologue to the Comedy of A On the Death of Stephen Grey,

Word to the Wise,' spoken by F.R.S., the Electrician 57

Mr Hull

41 To Miss Hickman, Playing on

the Spianet

58

ODES :-

Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap.

Spring

iv. verses 6-11 .

59

Midsummer

44 Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. Trans-

Autumn

45

59

Winter .

47 On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague 60

Anacreon, Ode Ninth

61

MISCELLANEOUS :-

Lines Written in Ridicule of cer-

The Winter's Walk

48 tain Poems published in 1777

To Miss

.

lated.

62

the

70

PAGB)

MISCELLANEOUS:

MISCELLANEOUS :-

Burlesque on the Modern Versi- Translation of Virgil, Pastoral I. 67

fication of Ancient Legendary Translation of Horace, Book
Tales : an Impromptu 64 i. Ode xxii.

68

Epitaph for Mr Hogarth

64

Translation of Horace, Book

Translation of the Two First

ü. Ode is.

69

Stanzas of the Song Rio Translation of part of the Dia-

Verde, Rio Verde,' printed in logue between Hector and

Bishop Percy's Reliques of

Andromache. From

Ancient English Poetry': an

Sixth Book of Homer's Iliad

Imprompta

64 To Miss * *

on her Play-

To Mrs Thrale, on her Complet- ing upon a Harpsichord in a

ing her Thirty-Fifth Year :

Room hung with Flower-

an Impromptu

65 Pieces of her own Painting . 71

Impromptu Translation of an Evening : an Ode. To Stella 72

Air in the · Clemenza de Tito' To the Same .

73

of Metastasia, beginning To a Friend

74

• Deb ! se Piacermi Vuoi' 65 To a Young Lady, on her Birth-

Lines Written under a Print re-

day

75

presenting Persons Skaiting 66 Epilogue intended to have been
Translation of a Speech of Aqui.

Spoken by a Lady who was

leio in the "Adriano' of Me-

to personate “The Ghost of

tastasio, beginning, “Tu Che

Hermione'

76

in Corte Invecchiasti' 66 The Young Author

77

Impromptu on Hearing Miss Friendship: an Ode. Printed

Thrale Consulting with a in the Gentleman's Magazine,

Friend about a Gown and

1743 .

79

Hat she was inclined to Imitation of the Style of Percy 80

Wear

67 One and Twenty

80