JOHNSON.
New fears in dire vicilsitude invade,
The ruftling Israke alarme, and quiveing thade.

Parit HW Zdar.

Painted by Rob Sminke,RA.

Engravel by Anth Cardon. THE

POETICAL WORKS

OR

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS ;

BY

THOMAS PARK, F.S. d.

LONDON:

Printed at the Stanhope Press,

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1811.

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

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45

MISCELLANIES. Verses, addressed to Dr. Lawrence............. 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

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

76
Book 2. Ode ix...

77 Book 4. Ode vii..

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

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

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

82
Book 2. Metre iv.....

Book 3. Metre v.........
Paraphrase of Proverbs, ch. vi. ver. 6 to 11... ib.
On the Death of Dr. Robert Lever.......... 85

83 84

albis

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

87 On Claude Phillips...............

33 For Hogarth.....

89 The New Year's Offering. To Myrtilis........

ib. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S............ 91 Poemata..........

93

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