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To Stella

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To Stella

1 Not the soft sighs of vernal gales,

The fragrance of the flowery vales,

The murmurs of the crystal rill,

The vocal grove, the verdant hill;

Not all their charms, though all unite,

Can touch my bosom with delight.

2 Not all the gems on India's shore,

Not all Peru's unbounded store,

Not all the power, nor all the fame,

That heroes, kings, or poets claim;

Nor knowledge, which the learn'd approve,

To form one wish my soul can move.

3 Yet Nature's charms allure my eyes,

And knowledge, wealth, and fame I prize;

Fame, wealth, and knowledge I obtain,

Nor seek I Nature's charms in vain--

In lovely Stella all combine,

And, lovely Stella! thou art mine.

About Samuel Johnson

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Summary

Introduction

The Life of Samuel Johnson

London

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Prologues

The Opening of Drury Lane Theatre

The Masque of Comus

The Good Natured Man

A Word to the Wise

Odes

Spring

Midsummer

Autumn

Winter

Miscellaneous

Stella in Mourning

To Stella

Verses Written at the Request of a Gentleman..

To Lady Firebrace, at Bury Assizes

To Lyce, an Elderly Lady

On the Death of Mr Robert Levett, a Practiser in Physic

Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician

Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart.

On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S., the Electrician

To Miss Hickman, Playing on the Spinnet

Paraphrase of Proverbs, Chap. iv. Verses 6-11

Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. Translated

On Seeing a Bust of Mrs Montague

Anacreon, Ode Ninth

Lines Written in Ridicule of certain Poems published in 1777

Parody of a Translation..

Burlesque on the Modern Versification of Ancient Legendary Tales..

Epitaph for Mr Hogarth

A Translation..

To Mrs Thrale:

Impromptu Translation..

Lines Written under a Print representing Persons Skaiting

Translation of a Speech..

Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale..

Translation of Virgil, Pastoral I

Translation of Horace, Book i. Ode xxii.

Translation of Horace, Book ii. Ode ix.

Dialogue between Hector and Andromache

To Miss****..

Evening: an Ode

To the Same

To a Friend

To a Young Lady, on her Birthday

Epilogue intended to have been Spoken by a Lady..

The Young Author

Friendship: an Ode

Imitation of the Style of ****

One and Twenty

Epigram on George II. and Colley Cibber, Esq.

Stella in Mourning

The Winter's Walk

To Miss **** on Her Giving the Author a Gold and Silk Network Purse

Lopez de Vega

Baretti's Easy Phraseology

Duke of Modena

M. Benserade

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