Oxford English Classics.

DR. JOHNSON'S WORKS.

LIFE, POEMS, AND TALES.

OXFORD,
PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER ;

AND W. PICKERING, LONDON.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME,

PAGE

Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson .....

POEMS.

.. 117

120

. 121

123

London"...

The Vanity of Human Wishes ...

Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theatre-royal,

Drury lane ..

Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene ..

Prologue ...........

Irene ...............................

Epilogue, by sir William Yonge .

Prologue to the masque of Comus ....

115

Prologue to the comedy of the Good-natured Man.

.. 116

Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise .

Spring ......

.. 118

Midsummer ......

119

Autumn........

Winter ...........

The Winter's Walk ...

. 122

To Miss *****, on her giving the author a gold and silk network purse,

of her own weaving

...........

To Miss *****, on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room hung

with flower-pieces of her own painting ........

Evening; an ode ....

.. 125

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

To the same .....

To a friend...........

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 Levet

130

Epitaph on Claude Phillips ..........

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum ......

Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson ........

134

To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet t ........

Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi. verses 6-11........

. ib.

Horace, lib. iv. ode vii, translated ...........

Anacreon, ode ix. .......

138

Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 ............ 139

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124

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