Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 256 pages of information about Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett.

Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 256 pages of information about Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett.

JOHNSON’S POEMS.

  The Life of Samuel Johnson
  London:  a Poem in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, 1738
  The Vanity of Human Wishes.  In imitation of the Tenth Satire of
    Juvenal

Prologues:—­
  Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick, at the Opening of the Theatre-Royal,
    Drury-Lane, 1747
  Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick before the ‘Masque of Comus’, acted
    for the benefit of Milton’s Grand-daughter
  Prologue to Goldsmith’s Comedy of ‘The Good-Natured Man’, 1769
  Prologue to the Comedy of ‘A Word to the Wise,’ spoken by Mr Hull

Odes:—­
  Spring
  Midsummer
  Autumn
  Winter

Miscellaneous:—­
  The Winter’s Walk
  To Miss ***** on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Network
    Purse of her own Weaving
  Epigram on George ii. and Colley Cibber, Esq. 
  Stella in Mourning
  To Stella
  Verses Written at the Request of a Gentleman to whom a Lady had
    given a Sprig of Myrtle
  To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Assizes
  To Lyce, an Elderly Lady
  On the Death of Mr Robert Levett, a Practiser in Physic
  Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician
  Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. 
  On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S., the Electrician
  To Miss Hickman, Playing on the Spinnet
  Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. iv. verses 6-11
  Horace, Lib. iv.  Ode vii.  Translated
  On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague
  Anacreon, Ode Ninth
  Lines Written in Ridicule of certain Poems published in 1777
  Parody of a Translation from the ‘Medea’ of Euripides
  Burlesque on the Modern Versification of Ancient Legendary Tales: 
    an Impromptu
  Epitaph for Mr Hogarth
  Translation of the Two First Stanzas of the Song ’Rio Verde,
    Rio Verde’, printed in Bishop Percy’s ’Reliques of Ancient
    English Poetry’:  an Impromptu
  To Mrs Thrale, on her Completing her Thirty-Fifth Year:  a
    Impromptu
  Impromptu Translation of an Air in the ‘Clemenza de Tito’ of
    Metastasia, beginning ‘Deh! se Piacermi Vuoi’
  Lines Written under a Print representing Persons Skaiting
  Translation of a Speech of Aquileio in the ‘Adriano’ of Metastasio,
    beginning, ‘Tu Che in Corte Invecchiasti’
  Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend about a
    Gown and Hat she was inclined to Wear
  Translation of Virgil, Pastoral I
  Translation of Horace, Book i.  Ode xxii. 
  Translation of Horace, Book ii.  Ode ix. 
  Translation of part of the Dialogue between Hector and
    Andromache.—­From the Sixth Book of Homer’s Iliad
  To Miss * * * * on her Playing upon a Harpsichord in a Room hung
    with Flower-Pieces of her own Painting
  Evening:  an Ode.  To Stella
  To the Same
  To a Friend
  To a Young Lady, on her Birthday

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