Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carol David and PG Distributed Proofreaders

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Correspondence

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eBook-No.

10835

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10835

Release Date

January 1, 2004

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LIFE, POEMS, AND TALES. — ADVERTISEMENT.
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
3. 3.AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. — THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; — PROLOGUE, — PREFATORY NOTICE TO — ACT I.—SCENE I. — SCENE II. — SCENE III. — SCENE IV. — SCENE V. — ACT II.—SCENE I. ASPASIA, IRENE. — SCENE II. — SCENE III. — SCENE IV. — SCENE V. — SCENE VI. — SCENE VII. — ACT III.—SCENE I. — SCENE II. — SCENE III. — SCENE IV. — SCENE V. — SCENE VI. — SCENE VII. — SCENE VIII. — SCENE IX. — SCENE X. — SCENE XI. — ACT IV.—SCENE I. — SCENE II. — SCENE III. — SCENE IV. — SCENE V. — SCENE VI. — SCENE VII. — SCENE VIII. — SCENE IX. — ACT V.—SCENE I. — SCENE II. — SCENE III. — SCENE IV. — SCENE V. — SCENE VI. — SCENE VII. — SCENE VIII. — SCENE IX. — SCENE X. — SCENE XI. — SCENE XII. — SCENE XIII. — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. — PROLOGUE; SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, APRIL 5, 1750, BEFORE THE MASQUE OF COMUS. — PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GOOD-NATUR'D MAN, 1769, — SPRING; AN ODE. — MIDSUMMER; AN ODE. — AUTUMN; AN ODE. — WINTER; AN ODE. — THE WINTER'S WALK. — EVENING; AN ODE. TO STELLA. — TO THE SAME. — TO A FRIEND. — STELLA IN MOURNING. — TO STELLA. — TO LYCE, AN ELDERLY LADY. — PARAPHRASE OF PROVERBS, CHAP. VI. VERSES 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. — HORACE, LIB. IV. ODE VII. TRANSLATED. — ANACREON, ODE IX. — LINES WRITTEN IN RIDICULE OF CERTAIN POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1777. — PARODY OF A TRANSLATION. FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES. — TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST TWO STANZAS OF THE SONG "RIO VERDE, RIO VERDE," PRINTED IN BISHOP PERCY'S RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY. — IMITATION OF THE STYLE OF ****. — BURLESQUE OF THE FOLLOWING LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEGA. AN IMPROMPTU. — TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING LINES AT THE END OF BARETTI'S EASY PHRASEOLOGY. — IMPROVISO TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING DISTICH ON THE DUKE OF MODENA'S RUNNING AWAY FROM THE COMET IN 1742 OR 1743. — IMPROVISO TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING LINES OF M. BENSERADE A SON LIT. — EPITAPH FOR MR. HOGARTH. — TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING LINES, WRITTEN UNDER A PRINT REPRESENTING PERSONS SKATING. — IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION OF THE SAME. — TO MRS. THRALE, ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. AN IMPROMPTU. — IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION OF AN AIR IN THE CLEMENZA DI TITO OF METASTASIO, BEGINNING "DEH SE PIACERMI VUOI." — BURLESQUE OF THE MODERN VERSIFICATIONS OF ANCIENT LEGENDARY TALES. AN IMPROMPTU. — ON SEEING A BUST OF MRS. MONTAGUE. — IMPROVISO ON A YOUNG HEIR'S COMING OF AGE — EPITAPHS. — AT LICHFIELD. H. S. E. MICHAEL JOHNSON, — IN WATFORD CHURCH. — IN STRETHAM CHURCH. — IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. — IN STRETHAM CHURCH.
4. 4.POEMATA — CHRISTIANUS PERFECTUS. — JEJUNIUM ET CIBUS. — IN RIVUM A MOLA STOANA LICHFELDIAE DIFFLUENTEM. — AD THOMAM LAURENCE, MEDICUM DOCTISSIMUM, — IN THEATRO, MARCH 8, 1771. — INSULA KENNETHI, INTER HEBRIDAS. — SKIA. — ODE DE SKIA INSULA. — SPES. — VERSUS COLLARI CAPRAE DOMINI BANKS INSCRIBENDI. — AD FOEMINAM QUANDAM GENEROSAM QUAE LIBERTATIS CAUSAE IN SERMONE PATROCINATA FUERAT. — JACTURA TEMPORIS. — IN ELIZAE AENIGMA. — PSALMUS CXVII. — GRAECORTUM EPIGRAMMATUM VERSIONES METRICAE. — EPICTETI. — E THEOCRITO. — EUR. MED. 193—203. — SEPTEM AETATES. — TRANSLATION OF DRYDEN'S EPIGRAM ON MILTON. — EPILOGUE TO THE CARMEN SAECULARE OF HORACE; PERFORMED AT FREEMASONS' HALL. — TRANSLATION OF A WELSH EPITAPH (IN HERBERT'S TRAVELS) ON PRINCE MADOCK.
5. 5.THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. — PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS. — CHAP. I. — CHAP. II. — CHAP. III. — CHAP. IV. — CHAP. V. — CHAP. VI. — LETTERS. — IV.—TO THE SAME. — VII.—TO THE SAME.

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