THE

WORKS

OF THE

ENGLISH POETS,

FROM CHAUCER TO COW PER;

INCLUDING THE

SERIES EDITED,

WITH

PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON:

ESTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN ; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIVGE AND SON ;
LEICH 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 :
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4$D SON AT CAMBRIDGE, AND WILSON AND SON AT YORK.

1810.

CONTENTS.

VOL. XVI.

POEMS OF SMART.

The Author

ODES.

ib.

PABLES

Page

Page

HE Author's Lise, by Mr. Chalmers 5 The Answer

43

Book I.

45

The Judgment of Midas. A Masque

53

I, Tåleness ...

17 Reason and Resignation A Pable

55

II. To Ethelinda, on her doing my Verses New Version of the Psalms. CXLVIII. 56

the Honour of wearing them in her Ode to Lord Barnard, on his Accession to that
Bosom. Written at thirteen
ib. Title

ib.

III. On an Eagle confined in a College Court. ib. Ode to Lady Harriot

IV. On the sudden Death of a Clergyman.. 18 Ode to the Earl of Northumberland, on his

V. On Good-Nature

being appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,

VI. On Ill-Nature

19 presented on the Birth-Day of Lord Wark-

Vil. To the reverend and learned Dr Web-

worth

ib.

ster, occasioned by his Dialogues of The Sweets of Evening

58

Anger and Forgiveness ..

ib. Ode to a Virginia Nightingale, which was

VIII. Epithalamium

20 cured of a Fit in the Bosom of a young

IX. The Author apologizes to a Lady for bis Lady who afterwards nursed the Author in

being a little Man.......

ib. a dangerous Illness.

ib.

X. An Ode on the 26th of January, being Martial, Book i. Ep. 26

ib.

the Birth-day of a young lady 21 On a Lady throwing Snow-Balls at her Lover.

XI. On taking a Bachelor's Degree

ib. From the Latin of Petronius Ascanius. ib.

XII. A Morning-Piece; or, an flyma for the

Hay-Makers ..

ib.

XII, A Noon-Piece; or, the Mowers at Din-

I. The wholesale Critic and the Hop-

22

Merchant.

ib.

XIV. A Night-Piece; or, modern Philosophy. ib.

II. The English Bull-Dog, Dutch Mastiff,

XV. On Miss

23

and Quail...

59

60

XVI. On the fifth of December, being the

III. Fashion and Night

IV. Where's the Poker

Birth-day of a beautiful young Lady. ib.

ib.

Ode for Music on Saint Cecilia's Day

ib.

V. The Tea-Pot and scrubbing Brush 61

VI. The Duelist

ib,
On the Eternity of the Supreme Being, a po. VII. The country Squire and the Mandrake. 69
etical Essay.

28 VIII. The brocaded Gown anıl Linen-Rag .. ib.

On the Immensity of the Supreme Being, a

IX. Madam and tbe Magpie

63

poetical Essay..

29 X. The Blockhead and Beebive..

it.

On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being, a

XI. The Citizen and the Red-Lion. of

poetical Essay...

31

Brentford

64

On the Power of the Supreme Being, a poeti-

XII. The Herald and Husbandman

65

cal Essay....

33 XIII. The Story of a Cock and a Bull ... 66

On tbe Goodness of the Supreme Being, a po- XIV. The Snake, the Goose, and Night-

ptical Exsay.....

34

ingale. Humbly addressed to the

The Hop-Garden: a Georgic. In two Books.

Hisses and Catcallers attending both
Book I.

36
Hlouses

ib.

II.

99 XV. Mrs. Abigail and the dumb Waiter... 67

The Hilliad: an epic Poem.

XVI. The Bag-Wig and the Tobacco Pipe.. ib.
A Letter to a friend at the University of XVII. Care and Generosity

ib.

Cambridge

40 XVIII. The Pig

68

per ...