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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

CONTENTS.

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London. In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
The Vanity of Human Wishes. In Imitation of the Tenth
Satire of Juvenal

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To Miss

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Work Purse of her Own Weaving.

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on her playing upon the Harpsichord in a Room hung with Flower-pieces of her own Painting

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on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Net

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To a Young Lady, on her Birthday.

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Song "Not the soft sighs of vernal gales"

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To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Assizes

Verses written at the Request of a Gentleman to whom a Lady

The Young Author.

To Myrtilis. The New Year's Offering

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Written for Garrick, and Spoken by him at the Opening of the
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, 1747 .
Spoken by Garrick, April 5, 1750, before the Masque of
Comus, acted at Drury-lane Theatre, for the Benefit of
Milton's Granddaughter.

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Prologue to Goldsmith's Comedy of "The Good-Natured Man,
spoken by Mr. Brinsley at the First Performance at
Covent-Garden Theatre, January 22, 1768 .
Prologue to the Comedy of "A Word to the Wise"
Epilogue, intended to have been spoken by a Lady who was to
personate the Ghost of Hermione

BAGATELLES.

Lines written in Ridicule of certain Poems published in 1777.
Parody of a Translation from the "Medea" of Euripides
Translation of two stanzas of the Song, "Rio Verde, Rio Verde,"

printed in Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
An Impromptu

Burlesque of the Modern Versifications of Ancient Legendary
Tales.-An Impromptu.

Imitation of the Style of ****

Burlesque of Lines of Lopez de Vega. An Impromptu
Translation of Lines at the end of Baretti's "Easy Phraseology.

An Impromptu

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Improviso Translation of "The Distich of the Duke of Mo-
dena's running away from the Comet in 1742 or 1748.
Improviso Translation of Lines of Mons. Benserade "à son Lit"
Translation of Lines written under a Print representing Persons
Skating.

Impromptu Translation of the same

To a Lady who spoke in Defence of Liberty
Ad Lauram Parituram Epigramma

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Epigram on George II., and Colley Cibber, the Poet Laureate
To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her Thirty-fifth Year.
Impromptu
Impromptu on hearing Miss Thrale consulting with a Friend
about a Gown and Hat she was inclined to wear
Impromptu Translation of an Air in the "Clemenza de Tito"
of Metastasio, beginning-"Deh se piacermi vuoi"
On Lyce, an Elderly Lady
One-and-Twenty

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On Claude Phillips, an Ítinerant Musician in Wales.

For Hogarth

TRANSLATIONS.

Part of the Dialogue between Hector and Andromache, from

the Sixth Book of Homer's "Iliad"

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