Epilogue intended to have been Spoken by a Lady who was to
    personate ‘The Ghost of Hermione’
  The Young Author
  Friendship:  an Ode.  Printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1743
  Imitation of the Style of Percy
  One and Twenty

Parnell’s poems.

  The Life and Poetry of Thomas Parnell
  Hesiod; or, the Rise of Woman
  Song
  Song
  Song
  Anacreontic
  Anacreontic
  A Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style
  To Mr Pope
  Health:  an Eclogue
  The Flies:  an Eclogue
  An Elegy to an Old Beauty
  The Book-Worm
  An Allegory on Man
  An Imitation of some French Verses
  A Night-Piece on Death
  A Hymn to Contentment
  The Hermit

Gray’s poems.

The Life and Poetry of Thomas Gray

Odes:—­
  I. On the Spring
  ii.  On the Death of a Favorite Cat
  III.  On a distant Prospect of Eton College
  iv.  To Adversity
  V. The Progress of Poesy
  VI.  The Bard
  vii.  The Fatal Sisters
  VIII.  The Descent of Odin
  ix.  The Death of Hoel
  X. The Triumph of Owen
  XI.  For Music

Miscellaneous:—­
  A Long Story
  Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
  Epitaph on Mrs Jane Clarke
  Stanzas, suggested by a View of the Seat and Ruins at Kingsgate,
    in Kent, 1766
  Translation from Statius
  Gray on himself

Smollett’s poems.

  The Life of Tobias Smollett
  Advice:  a Satire
  Reproof:  a Satire
  The Tears of Scotland.  Written in the year 1746
  Verses on a Young Lady playing on a Harpsichord and Singing
  Love Elegy, in imitation of Tibullus
  Burlesque Ode
  Ode to Mirth
  Ode to Sleep
  Ode to Leven Water
  Ode to Blue-Eyed Ann
  Ode to Independence
  Songs

THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

Samuel Johnson.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.

We feel considerable trepidation in beginning a life of Johnson, not so much on account of the magnitude of the man—­for in Milton, and one or two others, we have already met his match—­but on account of the fact that the field has been so thoroughly exhausted by former writers.  It is in the shadow of Boswell, the best of all biographers, and not in that of Johnson, that we feel ourselves at present cowering.  Yet we must try to give a rapid account of the leading incidents in Johnson’s life, as well as a short estimate of his vast, rugged genius.