THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS :

BY

THOMAS PARK, F.S. d.

LONDON:

Printed at the Stanhope Press,

BY WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND,

Goswell-Street;

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CONTENTS.

Page

5

ENCOMIUMS on Johnson......
London, in Imitation of the Third Satire of

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

Tenth Satire........

9

18

ODES,

Friendship...........
The Vanity of Wealth......
Spring
Summer.
Autumn ...............
Winter..
The Winter's Walk..........
Evening Ode. To Stella...
Messia.

30 31 32 33 35 37 38 39 40

MISCELLANIES.

Verses, addressed to Dr. Lawrence........... 45 The Natural Beauty. To Stella......... 46 Stella in Mourning....

47 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......

50 To a Young Lady, on her Birth-Day.......... 51

Page 52 53 ib.

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............

54 55 56

57

66

TRANSLATIONS.

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From the 6th Book of Homer's Iliad............ 75 Horace. Book 1. Ode xxii

76 Book 2. Ode ix........................... Book 4. Ode vii..........

78 Virgil. Pastoral 1.......

79 Anacreon. Ode ix........

80 Boethius. Book 2. Metre ii....

82 Book 2. Metre iv ........................

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

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

85

EPITAPHS.

89

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

87 On Claude Phillips......

38 For Hogarth......... The New Year's Offering. To Myrtilis........ ib. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.......... 91 Poemata......

93