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:
LEIGH AND SOTHEBY; R. FAULDER AND SON: G. NICHOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON; C. DAVIES; T. EGERTON; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN; J. WALKER; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE;
I. LEA, J. NUNN; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; J. STOCKDALE; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; CLARKE AND SONS;
1. WHITE AND CO.; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME: CADELL AND DAVIES; J. BARKER; JOHN RICHARDSON;
1. M. RICHARDSON; J. CARPENTER; B. CROSBY; E. JEFFERY; J. MURRAY; W. MILLER; J. AND A. ARCH, BLACK,
PARRY, AND KINGSBURY; J. BOOKER; S. BAGSTER; J. HARDING; J. MACKINLAY; J. HATCHARD; R. H. EVANS;
MATTHEWS AND LEIGH; J. MAWMAN, J. BOOTH; J. ASPERNE; P. AND W. WYNNE; AND W. GRACE, DEIGHTON
AND SON AT CAMBRIDGE, AND WILSON AND SON AT YORK.

1810.

C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer,
Goswell Street, London.

113.

208 Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of

Voiture

278

IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.

Chaucer

210

279

Spenser. The Alley

ib.

ib.

ib.

280

ib.

ib.

211

ib.

ib.

ib.

212

Epistle to the same, on her leaving the Town

after the Coronation, 1715...

The Basset-Table, an Eclogue

Verbatim from Boileau

Answer to a Question of Mrs. Howe

Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the

Duke of Buckingham

Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit,

in 1733, when he was old, blind, and in

great Distress, a little before his Death

Prologue to Sophonisba

ib. Macer: a Character

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated

Worm-Powder

Song, by a Person of Quality, written in the

Year 1733

ib.

ib.

281

ib.

ib.

ib.

214

282

217 To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day

ib.

220 To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-day,

222

1742

ib.

283

11.

111.

IV.

The Universal Prayer

Moral Essays, in Five Epistles:

Epistle I. Of the Knowledge and Charac-

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the Prologue

to the Satires

SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.

ters of Men

230

241

242

The fourth Epistle of the first Book of Ho-

race's Epistles

Epigram on Mrs. Tofts, a handsome Woman

with a fine Voice, but very covetous and

proud

Epigram on one who made long Epitaphs

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his painting for me

ib.

ib.

284

284

ib.

the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules ib.

A Farewell to London, in the year 1715

A Dialogue, between Pope and Craggs

Epigram engraved on the Collar of a Dog,

which I gave to his Royal Highness

Epigram, occasioned by an Invitation to Court ib.

On an old Gate erected in Chiswick Gardens. ib.

Fragment. - What are the falling rills, the pen-

dant shades

ib.

285

On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, only Son of the
Lord Chancellor Harcourt, in the Church of
Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, 1720 ...... ib.

On James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey. ib.

Intended for Mr. Rowe, in Westminster Abbey. ib.

On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her

Breast

286