AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

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M DCC XCII.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

Effay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson

London

page

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the

Theatre Roval, Drury-Lane

Irene

Prologue to the Mafque of Comus

Prologue to the Comedy of The Good-natured Man

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wife

Spring

Midfummer

Autumn

Winter

The Winter's Walk

"

To Mifs ** ** on her giving the Author a

Gold and Silk Net-work Purfe of her own.

weaving

9

To Mifs ***** on her playing upon the Harp-

fichord in a Room hung with Flower-pieces of

her own painting

Evening an Ode. To Stella

:

To the fame

To a Friend

Stella in Mourning

To Stella

Verfes, written at the Requeft of a Gentleman to

whom a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Affizes

I

3

15

28

31

131

132

134

135

136

137

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

To

To Lyce, an elderly Lady

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet

Epitaph on Claude Phillips

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer, Baronettum

Paraphrafe of the above, by Dr. Johnson

To Mifs Hickman, playing on the Spinet

Paraphrase of Proverbs, Chap. VI. Verses 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, II

Horace, Lib. IV. Ode VII. tranflated

Anacreon, Ode IX.

Lines written in Ridicule of certain Poems published

in 1777

Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides

Tranflation of the two firft Stanzas of the Song "Rio

Verde, Rio Verde”

page 149

150

152

ib.

Imitation of the Style of * * * **

Burlesque of fome Lines of Lopez de Vega

Tranflation of fome Lines at the End of Baretti's Eafy

Phrafeology

Poemata

154

156

157

ib.

159

ib.

164

Improvifo Tranflation of a Diftich on the Duke of

Modena's running away from the Comet in

160

161

1742 or 1743

Improvifo Tranflation of fome Lines of Monf. Ben-

ferade à fon Lit

Epitaph for Mr. Hogarth

Tranflation of fome Lines written under a Print re-
presenting Persons skaiting

=

Impromptu Translation of the fame

To Mrs. Thrale, on her completing her Thirty-fifth

Year

Impromptu Tranflation of an Air in the Clemenza de

Tito of Metastatio

ib.

166

Tranflation of a Speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of

Metaftatio

162

ib.

163

ib.

ib.

165

ib.

167

168

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