PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER;

AND W. PICKERING, LONDON.

MDCCCXXV.

6

B

1860, july 13 Picknad Beguest

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson

PAGS

i

POEMS.

London .....

1

The Vanity of Human Wishes

12

Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theatre-royal,

Drury lane

23

Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene

25

Prologue

29

Irene

31

Epilogue, by sir William Yonge

114

Prologue to the masque of Comus

115

Prologue to the comedy of the Good-natured Man.

116

Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise

117

Spring ....

118

Midsummer

119

Autumn..

120

Winter

121

The Winter's Walk .

122

To Miss *****, on her giving the author a gold and silk network purse,

of her own weaving .....

123

To Miss *, on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room hung

with flower-pieces of her own painting

124

Evening ; an ode

125

To the same

126

To a friend....

ib.

Stella in mourning

127

To Stella .....

Verses, written at the request of a gentleman, to whom a lady had given a

sprig of myrtle

ib.

To lady Firebrace, at Bury assizes

To Lyce, an elderly lady ...

ib.

On the death of Mr. Robert Levet

130

Epitaph on Claude Phillips .....

132

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum

Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson

134

To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet

136

Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi. verses 6–11..

ib.

Horace, lib. iv. ode vii, translated

137

Anacreon, ode ix. ...

138

Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777

139

... 128

129

ib.