THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON ; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON: W. OTRIDGE AND SON: LEICH AND SOTHEBY: R. FAULDER AND SON; G. NICHOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON: WILKIE AND 1810. CONTENTS. I HE Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers ....... 5 The Answer ............ The Judgment of Midas. A Masque ......... ........ 171 Reason and Resignation. A Fable ............. the Honour of wearing them in her Ode to Lord Barnard, on bis Accession to that Bosom. Written at thirteen ......... ib. Title ............................................. V. On Good-Nature ................. ......... ib. being appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, worth ............................................. ib. sler, occasioned by his Dialogues of The Sweets of Evening ........................... 58 Anger and Forgiveness .................. Ode to a Virginia Nightingale, which was cured of a Fit in the Bosom of a young IX. The Author apologizes to a Lady for his Lady who afterwards nursed the Author in X. An Ode on the 26th of January, being Martial, Book i. Ep. 26 ......................... the Birth day of a young Lady ...... On a Lady throwing Snow-Balls at her Lover. XI. On taking a Bachelor's Degree ......... From the Latin of Petronius Ascanius ...... ib. XII. A Morning-Piece; or, an Hyma for the XII. A Noon-Piece; or, the Mowers at Din- 1. The wholesale Critic and the Hop- ner ................. XIV. A Night-Piece; or, modern Philosophy: II. The English Bull-Dog, Dutch Mastiff, XV. On Miss - .............................. XVI. On the fifth of December, being the III. Fashion and Night ........ Birth-day of a beautiful young Lady. Ode for Masic on Saint Cecilia's Day ......... V. The Tea-Pot and scrubbing Brush ... On the Eternity of the Supreme Being, a po VII. The country Squire and the Mandrake. 62 VIII. The brocaded Gown and Linen-Rag .. On the Immensity of the Supreme Being, a IX. Madam and the Magpie ............... X. The Blockhead and Beehive ............ On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being, a XI. The Citizen and the Red-Lion of On tbe Power of the Supreme Being, a poeti- XII. The Herald and Husbandman ......... 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 Books. Hisses and Catcallers attending both Book 1. ............................................ Houses .................................. XV, Mrs. Abigail and the dumb Waiter ... 67 The Hilliad: an epic Poem. XVI, The Bag-Mig and the Tobacco Pipe.. A Leiter to a Friend at the University of I XVII. Care and Generosity ..................... |