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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

ESSAY on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson

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London ...

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theatre-royal,

Drury lane

Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene

Prologue

Irene

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Epilogue, by sir William Yonge

Prologue to the masque of Comus

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Prologue to the comedy of the Good-natured Man..

Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise

Spring....

Midsummer

Autumn....

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POEMS.

Winter

The Winter's Walk...

To Miss *****, on her giving the author a gold and silk network purse,

of her own weaving .....

To Miss *****, on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room hung

with flower-pieces of her own painting

Evening; an ode

To the same....

To a friend...

Stella in mourning

To Stella.....

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Verses, written at the request of a gentleman, to whom a lady had given` a

sprig of myrtle

To lady Firebrace, at Bury assizes

To Lyce, an elderly lady .

On the death of Mr. Robert Levet

Epitaph on Claude Phillips

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum

Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson

To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet

Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi. verses 6—11..

Horace, lib. iv. ode vii. translated

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Anacreon, ode ix.

Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777

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