PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON:

LONDON:

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. NICOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON; C. DAVIES; T. EGERTON; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN; J. WALKER; VERNOB, HOOD, AND SHARPE;
R. LEA; J. NUNN; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; J. STOCK DALE; 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 KINSGBURY; 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.

To my Lord of Northumberland, upon the

Death of his Lady

Recovery

To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and

Song. Stay, Phœbus, stay!

ib. On a Girdle

To the Mutable Fair..

ib. To Flavia. Song

ib.

The Fall

41 Of Sylvia

The Bud

ib.

ib.

42

50

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

51

ib..

ib.

ib.

ib.

52

ib.

ib.

Song. Behold the brand of beauty tost!...... ib.

On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting......... ib.

To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen 53

To Chloris

On my Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture........ ib. Song. While I listen to thy voice

To Van Dyck

At Pens-Harst

To my Lord of Leicester

ib.

ib.

Of the Lady who can sleep when she

pleases.

Of the Misreport of her being painted

Of her passing through a Crowd of People ...

The Story of Phoebus and Daphne applied

Fabula Phœbe et Daphnis