O knjigi
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM PICKERING, LONDON;
AND TALBOYS AND WHEELER, OXFORD.
MDCCCXXV.
12
London
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theatre-royal,
Drury lane ....
23
Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene
25
Prologue ...
29
Irene
31
Epilogue, by sir William Yonge
114
Prologue to the masque of Comus
115
Prologue to the comedy of the Good-natured Man.
116
Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise
117
Spring ...
118
Midsummer
119
Autumn..
120
Winter
121
The Winter's Walk
122
To Miss ****, on her giving the author a gold and silk network purse,
of her own weaving ...
... 123
To Miss *****, on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room hung
with flower-pieces of her own painting
124
Evening; an ode
125
To the same
126
To a friend....
ib.
Stella in mourning
127
To Stella ..
128
Verses, written at the request of a gentleman, to whom a lady had given a
sprig of myrtle
To lady Firebrace, at Bury assizes
129
To Lyce, an elderly lady ....
On the death of Mr. Robert Levet
130
Epitaph on Claude Phillips .....
132
Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, baronettum
Paraphrase of the above, by Dr. Johnson
134
To Miss Hickman, playing on the spinet
136
Paraphrase of Proverbs, chap. vi. verses 6-11..
Horace, lib. iv. ode vii, translated
137
Anacreon, ode ix.
138
Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777
139 PAGE
.... 140
Parody of a translation from the Medea of Euripides
Translation from the Medea of Euripides
... ib.
Translation of the two first stanzas of the song “Rio Verde, Rio Verde".. 142
Imitation of the style of *
Burlesque of some lines of Lopez de Vega
143
Translation of some lines at the end of Baretti's Easy Phraseology
Improviso translation of a distich on the duke of Modena's running away
from the comet in 1742 or 1743 ....
144
Improviso translation of some lines of M. Benserade à son Lit
Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth
Translation of some lines, written under a print representing persons
skating
... 145
Impromptu translation of the same
To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her thirty-fifth year.
Impromptu translation of an air in the Clemenza di Tito of Metastasio 146
Translation of a speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of Metastasio.... ib.
Burlesque of the modern versifications of ancient legendary tales
147
Friendship ; an ode ...,
On seeing a bust of Mrs. Montague.
148
Improviso on a young heir's coming of age
149
Epitaphs—on his father
150
his wife
Mrs. Bell.
151
Mrs. Salusbury
152
Dr. Goldsmith..
Mr. Thrale
153
POEMATA
155
Prefatory observations to the history of Rasselas
195
Rasselas, prince of Abissinia
199
LETTERS.
I. To Mr. James Elphinston
II. to XL. To Mrs. Thrale
XLI. To Mr. Thrale
XLII. to LIII. To Mrs. Thrale ....
LIV, To Mrs. Piozzi ..
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