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THE

POETICAL WORKS

O F

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

[Price THREE SHILLINGS in Boards.]

[Entered at Stationers-Hall. ]

POETICAL WORKS

O F

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

A NEW EDITION CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

KK

London :

PRINTED FOR GEORGE KEARSLEY,

JOHNSON'S HEAD,

FLEET-STREET,

1.789.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THOUGH the quantity of Dr. JOHNSON's poetry bears no proportion to his profe writing, its quality has been always in such esteem with the best judges, that little remains for me, but to state a few facts and circumftances relative to the periods at which his different pieces were published.

The Tranflation of Mr. Pope's MESSIAH into Latin verfe, was performed as an exercife when he was a commoner of

Pembroke-College, Oxford, at the

A 3

age of.

twenty;

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