The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson

J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry - 547 pages

Contents

• RECOMMENDATORY POEMS: 7
• The House of Nassaa A Pindaric Ode 16 ments of Tyrtæas Translated in the Year: 19
• The March: 25
• A Cantata Set by Mr Galliard: 36
• TALES: 37
• Thy origins divine I: 43
• Horatius In libro primo Epistolarum ib The Ecstasy An: 60
• The Authors Life by Dr Johnson: 77
• To Amoretta: 83
• Helen to Paris From Ovid Translated by Choruses in Marcus Brutus: 89
• POEMS OF PRIOR: 105
• The Authors Life by Dr Jobạson: 122
• On the Marriage of George Prince of Den Ode In Imitation of Horace III Od ii writ: 129
• A Song In vain you tell your parting lover ib Roy lAnnee 1692 Par Monsieur Boileau: 135
• Cloe jealous: 182
• POEMS OF CONGREVE: 257
• 090: 291
• Xoids third Book of the Art of Love trans Queen on the victorious Progress of: 292
• Fritten at Tunbridge Wells on Miss Temple Pindaric: 303
• POEMS OF BLACKMORE: 322
• soinmary Account of the Poem of Creation: 337
• POEMS OF FENTON: 385
• Tish to the new Year 1705: 391
• ipid and Hymen: 397
• Widows Wile: 407
• iron Ovid: 423
• Page: 435
• To the right hon Paul Methuen Esq 471 the Old Bailey 1725: 472
• gram in Homer: 473
• Pan and Fortune To a young Heir: 540
• To a young Lady with some Lampreys ib by Handel: 545

Popular passages

Page 426 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction or a word or two of advice, but it was wholly of his own writing.

Page 209 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Page 203 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Page 438 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...

Page 111 - We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided.

Page 143 - Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva, and him a new god. But why should I stories of Athens rehearse, Where people knew love, and were partial to verse ; Since none can with justice my pleasures oppose, In Holland half...

Page 148 - Ah me ! the blooming pride of May And that of Beauty are but one : At morn both flourish, bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale and gone.

Page 454 - Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the leaky boat the Thames divide; Or, box'd within the chair, contemn the street, And trust their safety to another's feet, Still let me walk; for oft the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail.

Page 425 - will make " you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton " every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost ; and Gay sunk under the calamity so low, that his life became in danger.

Page 259 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.

About the author

Samuel Johnson was born in 1709, in Lichfield, England. The son of a bookseller, Johnson briefly attended Pembroke College, Oxford, taught school, worked for a printer, and opened a boarding academy with his wife's money before that failed. Moving to London in 1737, Johnson scratched out a living from writing. He regularly contributed articles and moral essays to journals, including the Gentleman's Magazine, the Adventurer, and the Idler, and became known for his poems and satires in imitation of Juvenal. Between 1750 and 1752, he produced the Rambler almost single-handedly. In 1755 Johnson published Dictionary of the English Language, which secured his place in contemporary literary circles. Johnson wrote Rasselas in a week in 1759, trying to earn money to visit his dying mother. He also wrote a widely-read edition of Shakespeare's plays, as well as Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and Lives of the Poets. Johnson's writing was so thoughtful, powerful, and influential that he was considered a singular authority on all things literary. His stature attracted the attention of James Boswell, whose biography, Life of Johnson, provides much of what we know about its subject. Johnson died in 1784.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10; The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Alexander Chalmers; Volume 10 of The Works of the English Poets: From Chaucer to Cowper; Including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the Most Approved Translations, Alexander Chalmers
• Author: Samuel Johnson
• Editor: Alexander Chalmers
• Publisher: J. Johnson, 1810
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jul 26, 2007
• ISBN: 0608348198, 9780608348193
• Length: 547 pages