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;
R. LEA; J. NUNN; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; J. STOCKDALE; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; CLARKE AND SONS;
J. WHITE AND CO.; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. BARKER ; JOHN RICHARDSON;
J. 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.

From the eleventh Book of the Iliads of Ho-

mer. In the Style of Milton.......

To Mrs. Eliz. M-t, on her Picture, 1716

...

An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton, Au-

thor of Mariamne, a Tragedy, 1726......... ib. Prologue to Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy,

A Dialogue between a Lady and her Looking-

glass, while she had the Green-sickness

On the Seat of War in Flanders, &c.

To the right honourable Lord Charles Corn-
wallis

The Rose-bud. To the right honourable the

Lady Jane Wharton

Belinda at the Bath

The Coy: an Ode.......

To the honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend,

afterwards Lady Cornwallis, on her Picture

at Rainham

Mariamne

19 To Mr. A. Pope, who corrected my Verses ... 35

Monsieur Maynard imitated. To the right

honourable the Lord Cornwallis..

22 On a Mischievous Woman

The Coquette

ib. The Widow and Virgin Sisters, being a Letter

to the Widow in London.....

ib.

On the Death of my dear Friend, Mr. Elijah

Fenton, 1730

ib.

To Thomas Marriot, Esq. A Poem on Death 37

Courage in Love...

The Complaint. Cælia to Damon

24

A Pastoral, to a young Lady, upon her leaving,
and return to, the Country

Poverty and Poetry

To a Lady, playing with a Snake.......................

To a Lady of thirty

On the Birth-day of Mr. Robert Trefusis, being

three Years old, March 22, 1710-11........