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SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

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Poems found: 60

A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION

ON SOME LINES OF LOPE DE VEGA

ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC

PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747

THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED

TO MRS. THRALE [ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR]

WHILE MANY A MERRY TALE

BURLESQUE ON THE MODERN VERSIFICATION OF ANCIENT ... TALES

EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II AND COLLEY CIBBER, ESQ

EPITAPH ON WILLIAM HOGARTH

IDYLL

LINES CONTRIBUTED TO GOLDSMITH'S 'THE TRAVELLER'

LINES CONTRIBUTED TO HAWKESWORTH'S 'THE RIVAL'

LINES WRITTEN IN RIDICULE OF CERTAIN POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1777

XERXES

WITHOUT ECONOMY NONE CAN BE RICH, AND WITH IT

AUTUMN

BOETHIUS

EPILOGUE INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY A LADY

EPITAPH ON SIR THOMAS HANMER, BART

EVENING: AN ODE (1)

EVENING: AN ODE (2)

FRIENDSHIP: AN ODE

IRENE, SELS.

LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

LIFE

LINES PRINTED ON A TOAST LIST FOR SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, HULL

LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PRINT OF PERSONS SKATING

LONDON: A POEM IN IMITATION OF THE THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL

MADE PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERING

MIDSUMMER

ON HEARING MISS THRALE DELIBERATE ABOUT HER HAT

ON SEEING A BUST OF MRS MONTAGUE

ON THE DEATH OF STEPHEN GREY, F.R.S

PARAPHRASE OF PROVERBS, CHAP. IV, VERSES 6-11

PARODY OF A TRANSLATION FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES

PARODY OF BISHOP PERRY

POVERTY

PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK BEFORE THE MASQUE ... COMUS

PROLOGUE TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF THE GOODNATURED MAN

PROLOGUE TO HUGH KELLY'S COMEDY 'A WORD TO THE WISE'

SPRING

STELLA IN MOURNING

LESSON

WISE MAN'S PRAYER

WITS

YOUNG AUTHOR

THOUGHTS

THOUGHTS

TO A FRIEND

TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER BIRTHDAY

TO LADY FIREBRACE

TO LYCE

TO MISS **** ON HER PLAYING UPON A HARPSICHORD

TO MISS *****, ON HER GIVING THE AUTHOR ... PURSE

TO MISS HICKMAN

TO STELLA

VERSES WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A GENTLEMAN

WEALTH

WINTER



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