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Title: Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett
With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

Author: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett

Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11254]

Language: English

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHNSON, PARNELL, GRAY,

AND

SMOLLETT.

With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and
Explanatory Notes

BY THE
REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
EDINBURGH

M.DCCC.LV.

CONTENTS.

JOHNSON'S POEMS.

The Life of Samuel Johnson
London: a Poem in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, 1738
The Vanity of Human Wishes. In imitation of the Tenth Satire of
Juvenal

PROLOGUES:--
Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick, at the Opening of the Theatre-Royal,
Drury-Lane, 1747
Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick before the 'Masque of Comus', acted
for the benefit of Milton's Grand-daughter
Prologue to Goldsmith's Comedy of 'The Good-Natured Man', 1769
Prologue to the Comedy of 'A Word to the Wise,' spoken by Mr Hull

ODES:--
Spring
Midsummer
Autumn
Winter

MISCELLANEOUS:--
The Winter's Walk
To Miss ***** on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Network
Purse of her own Weaving
Epigram on George II. and Colley Cibber, Esq.
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 Levett, a Practiser in Physic
Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician
Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart.
On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S., the Electrician
To Miss Hickman, Playing on the Spinnet
Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. iv. verses 6-11
Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. Translated
On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague
Ana