The idler. Poems

Pafraets Book Company, 1908

NO PAGE 77 Easy writing	1

Steady Snug Startle Solid and Misty	4

Grand style of painting	9

Ladies journey to London	12

Indians speech to his countrymen	16

The true idea of beauty	19

Scruple Wormwood Sturdy and Gentle	25

Biography how best performed	28

Omars plan of life	87

Authors inattentive to themselves	91

Horrour of the last	94

POEMS	103

London	105

The Vanity of Human Wishes	117

Prologue spoken by Mr Garrick at the opening of the theatre royal Drury lane	131

Prefatory Notice to the tragedy of Irene	134

Books multiplied by useless compilations	32

Miss Heartless want of a lodging	35

Amazonian bravery revived	39

What have ye done?	43

Physical evil moral good	46

Rhetorical action considered 4 9	54

Nature of cunning	57

Sam Softlys history	60

Obstructions of learning	63

Tim Wainscots son a fine gentleman	66

Hacho of Lapland	70

Narratives of travellers considered	73

Sophia Heedful	79

The good sort of woman	83

Prologue	139

Irene	143

Epilogue by sir William Yonge	237

Prologue to the masque of Comus	238

Prologue to the comedy of the Goodnatured Man	239

Prologue to the comedy of a Word to the Wise	240

The Winters Walk	246

Stella in mourning	252

Epitaphium in Thomam Hanmer baronettum	258

Anacreon ode ix	264

Burlesque of some lines of Lopez de Vega	270

To Mrs Thrale on her completing her thirtyfifth year	272

Epitaphson his father	278

Poemata	284

Title	The idler. Poems Volume 6 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson
Author	Samuel Johnson
Publisher	Pafraets Book Company, 1908
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	9 Jan 2009

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