THE

WORKS

O F

Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

BY ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for T. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodfley, H. Baldwin, J. Robfon, J Johnfon. C. Dilly. T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmfly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldfmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M'Queen, Ogilvie and Speare, Darton and Harvey, G and C. Kearfley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery.

M DCC XCII.

1024

CONTENTS

FIRST

OF THE

VOLUM E.

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the

Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane

Prologue to the Mafque of Comus

Effay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson

page I

London

3

15

28

Irene

31

131

132

134

135

136

137

139

140

Prologue to the Comedy of The Good-natured Man

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wife

Spring

Midfummer

Autumn

Winter

The Winter's Walk

,

To Mifs ***** on her giving the Author a

Gold and Silk Net-work Purfe of her own

weaving

To Mifs ***** on her playing upon the Harp-

fichord in a Room hung with Flower-pieces of

her own painting

Evening an Ode. To Stella

141

To the fame

To a Friend

Stella in Mourning

To Stella

Verfes, written at the Requeft of a Gentleman to

whom a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Affizes

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

To

To Lyce, an elderly Lady

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet

page 149

150

10, II

Epitaph on Claude Phillips

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, Baronettum

Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson

To Mifs Hickman, playing on the Spinet

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

Horace, Lib. IV. Ode VII. translated

152

ib.

154

156

157

ib.

Anacreon, Ode IX.

159

Lines written in Ridicule of certain Poems published

in 1777

160

Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides

Tranflation of the two firft Stanzas of the Song "Rio

Tranflation of fome Lines at the End of Baretti's Eafy
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. Ben-

ib.

ferade à fon Lit

Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth

Tranflation of fome Lines written under a Print re-

prefenting Perfons fkaiting

Impromptu Tranflation of the fame

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

Year

Impromptu Tranflation of an Air in the Clemenza de

Tito of Metastatio

Tranflation of a Speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of

Metastatio

Poemata

164

ib.

ib.

165

ib.

ib.

166

167

168

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