JOHNSON. New fears in dire vicifsitude invade. The rustling brake alarms, and quivring fhade. Painted by Rob Smirke, R.A. Vanity of Human Wisher Published Janes by John Sharpe, Engraved by Ant Cardon THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS : BY THOMAS PARK, F.S. A. LONDON: Printed at the Stanhope Press, BY WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND, Goswell-Street; JBLISHED BY SUTTABY, EVANCE, AND FOX, STATIONERS 1811. CONTENTS. ENCOMIUMS on Johnson..... London, in Imitation of the Third Satire of Page 5 9 18 The Vanity of Human Wishes, from Juvenal's Verses, addressed to Dr. Lawrence... The Natural Beauty. To Stella......... Stella in Mourning.......... 45 46 To Miss Hickman, playing on the Spinet..... 48 To Miss , playing on the Harpsichord, &c. 49 To Miss on her giving the Author a Purse... To a Young Lady, on her Birth-Day.......... 50 51 Song..... On seeing a Bust of Mrs. Montague.. To Lady Firebrace..... Verses, written at the Request of a Gen tleman..... The Young Author...... Translation from Metastasio.... PROLOGUES, &c. BAGATELLES........ TRANSLATIONS. From the 6th Book of Homer's Iliad........... Horace. Book 1. Ode xxii.......... Book 2. Ode ix....... Book 4. Ode vii........ Virgil. Pastoral 1. Anacreon. Ode ix.......... Boethius. Book 2. Metre ii... Book 2. Metre iv....... iv............................ Paraphrase of Proverbs, ch. vi. ver. 6 to 11... EPITAPHS. On Sir Thomas Hanmer.......... On Claude Phillips........ Phillips..................................................................... For Hogarth........ 75 76 77 78 79 80 82 83 84 ib. 85 87 88 89 The New Year's Offering. To Myrtilis... ib. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.. Poemata.. 93 |