Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes
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Chapters (125)
- LIFE, POEMS, AND TALES.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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