CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

Page

ESSAY on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnfon

London

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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3

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28

Prologue to the Comedy of The Good-natured Man

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wife

Spring

Midfummer

Autumn

Winter

132

134

135

136

137

139

The Winter's Walk

140

To Mifs *****, on her playing upon the Harpsichord

To Miss *****, on her giving the Author a Gold and

Silk Net-work Purfe of her own weaving

in a Room hung with Flower-pieces of her own

Verfes, written at the Requeft of a Gentleman to whom

a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

To

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Affizes

To Lyce, an elderly Lady

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet

Epitaph on Claude Phillips

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, Baronettum

149

149

150

152

ib.

Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson

154

To Mifs Hickman, playing on the Spinet

156

Paraphrafe of Proverbs, Chap. VI. Verses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 157

Horace, Lib. IV. Ode VII. tranflated

ib.

Anacreon, Ode IX.

159

Lines written in Ridicule of certain Poems publifhed in 1777 160

Parody of a Tranflation from the Medea of Euripides

Tranflation of the two firft Stanzas of the Song

162

ib.

163

Y

Verde, Rio Verde"

Imitation of the Style of * * * * *

Burlefque of fome Lines of Lopez de Vega

Tranflation of fome Lines at the End of Baretti's Easy
Phrafeology

Improvifo Tranflation of a Diftich on the Duke of Modena's.

running away from the Comet in 1742 or 1743

Improvifo Tranflation of fome Lines of Monf. Benferade à.

fon Lit

Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth

Tranflation of fome Lines written under a Print represent-

ing Perfons fkaiting

Impromptu Translation of the fame

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

Impromptu Tranflation of an Air in the Clemenza de Tito

of Metaftatio

Tranflation of a Speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of

Metaftatio

Poemata

ib.

164

ib.

ib.

165

ib.

ib.

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AN

AN

E S SAY

ON THE

LIFE AND GENIUS

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

By ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq.

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