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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,
Pradilly

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
COURT, LUDGATE STREET; SHARPE AND HAILES, PICCA
DILLY; AND TAYLOR AND HESSEY, FLEET-STREET.

1811.

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CONTENTS.

ENCOMIUMS on Johnson.....

London, in Imitation of the Third Satire of
Juvenal..

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The Vanity of Human Wishes, from Juvenal's
Tenth Satire.........

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Verses, addressed to Dr. Lawrence...

The Natural Beauty. To Stella.........

Stella in Mourning..........

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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..........

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Song.....

On seeing a Bust of Mrs. Montague..

To Lady Firebrace.....

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Verses, written at the Request of a Gen

tleman.....

The Young Author......

Translation from Metastasio....

PROLOGUES, &c.

BAGATELLES........

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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.......
Book 3. Metre V.............

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Paraphrase of Proverbs, ch. vi. ver. 6 to 11...
On the Death of Dr. Robert Lever................

EPITAPHS.

On Sir Thomas Hanmer..........

On Claude Phillips........

Phillips.....................................................................

For Hogarth........

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The New Year's Offering. To Myrtilis... ib. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S..

Poemata..

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