THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS. FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: USTED FOR J. JOHNSON: J. NICROLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON: ATTHEWS AND LEIGH: J. MAWMAN; J. BOOTH; J. ASPEKNE ; P. AND W. WYNNE ; AND W. GRACE. DEIGNTO 1810. CONTENTS THE Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers ...... S The Answer ........................................., The Judgment of Midas. A Masque ......... Reason and Resignation A Pable ....... 31. To Ethelinda, on her doing my Verses New Version of the Psalms. CXLVIII. .... the Honour of wearing them in her 1. Ode to Lord Barnard, on his Accession to that Bosom. Written at thirteen ........ ib. Title ............ til. To the reverend and learned Dr. Web- ster, occasioned by bis Dialogues of The Sweets of Eveping ... ........... 58 Ode to a Virginia Nightingale, which was cured of a Fit in the Boson of a young a dangerous Illness ....... X. An Ode on the 26th of January, being Martial, Book i. Ep. 26 .......... the Birth-day of a young Lady ...... 21 On a Lady throwing Snow-Balls at her Lover. XI. On taking a Bachelor's Degree ......... From the Latin of letronius Ascanius ...... ib. XII. A Morning-Piece; or, an flying for the Hay-Makers ........................." 1. The wholesale Critic and the Hop- ANT, A Noon-Piece; or, the Mowers at Din- Mierchant........ Der ....................................... 22 II. The English Buil-Dog, Dutch Mastiff, XV. A Night-Piece; or, modern Philosophy. ib. XV. (a Miss --- ............................." III, Fashion and Night ............ 11. On the fifth of December, being the Birth-day of a beautiful young Lady. ib. Ole for Music on Saint Cecilia's Day .......... V. The Tea-Pot and scrubbing Brush ... 61 On the Eternity of the Supreme Being, a po VII. The country Squire and the Mandrake. 62 etical Essay VIII. The brocaded Gown anil Linen-Rag... IX. Madam and tbe Magpie ............... X. The Blockhead and Beehive ............ On the Omniscience of the Sapreme Being, a XI. The Citizen and the Red-Lion. of On the Power of the Supreme Being, a poeti- XII. The Herald and Husbandman .......... 65 XIII. The Story of a Cock and a Bull ..... On the Goodness of the Supreme Being, a po- XIV. The Snake, the Goose, and Night- ingale. Humbly addressed to the The Hop-Garden: a Georgic. In two Boriks. Hisses and Catcallers attending both Houses ................................. XV. Mrs, Abigail and the dumb Waiter... XVI. The Bag-Wig and the Tobacco Pipe.. A letter to a friend at the University of . . |