Engraved by E. Mitchell, from a Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the possession of James Boswell, Esq.

THE

WORKS

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

WITH

AN ESSAY

ON

HIS LIFE AND GENIUS:

BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG; W. SHARPE AND SON; G.
OFFOR; G. AND J. ROBINSON; J. EVANS AND CO.: ALSO
R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW; AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1824.

N

13 JUL 1961

LIBRARY

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

Prologue spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre,

Prologue, spoken April 5, 1750, before the Mask of Comus

Prologue to the Comedy of the Good-natured Man

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

Page

i

3

15

28

31

131

132

134

To Miss *****, on her giving the Authour a Gold and Silk

Net-Work Purse of her own weaving

-

To Miss *****, on her playing on the Harpsichord in a

Room hung with Flower-Pieces of her own painting

Evening, an Ode. To Stella

To the same

To a Friend

141

142

143

144

145

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

a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Assizes

Page

To Lyce, an elderly Lady

149

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic 150

Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an itinerant Musician

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, Baronettum

Paraphrase of the above Epitaph

To Miss Hickman, playing on the Spinnet

Paraphrase of Proverbs, Chap. vi. Verses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. translated

-

152

ib.

154

156

Lines written in ridicule of certain Poems, published in

1777

-

Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides

Translation of the two first Verses of the Song, “Rio

Verde, Rio Verde"

Imitation of the Style of ****

Burlesque on the following Lines of Lopez de Vega

Translation of Lines at the End of Baretti's Easy Phrase-

ology

Improviso Translation of the Distich on the Duke of

Modena's running away from the Comet in 1742 or

1743

Improviso Translation of the Lines of M. Benserade à son

Impromptu Translation of the same

To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her thirty-fifth Year

Impromptu Translation of an Air in the Clemenza de Tito

of Metastasio

164

ib.

ib.

165

ib.

ib.

Translation of a Speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of

Metastasio

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