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Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Texts; Part I: Early Poetry and Prose to 1750; Translation of Horace, Odes, I.xxii (pre-1725); Translation of Horace, Epode, II (prob. 1726); Translation of Horace, Odes, II.xiv (prob. 1726); Translation of Horace, Odes, II.xx (prob. 1726); ’Festina Lente’ (prob. late 1726); ’The Young Author’ (1729); ’Annals’ (1734) - from birth to 1719; Letter to Cave, 25 November, 1734; ’Preface’ to Lobo’s Voyage to Abyssinia (1 February, 1735); Letter to Cave, 12 July, 1737; London (12 May, 1738); ’Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia’ (June, 1738); ’A Prayer on my Birth-Day’ (7 September, 1738); ’On Gay’s Epitaph’ (October, 1738); ’Life of Boerhaave’ (January, 1739); A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (May, 1739); ’Prologue’ to Lethe (April, 1740); ’An Epitaph on Claudy Philips, a Musician’ (September, 1740); ’On Epitaphs’ (December, 1740); Review of the Memoirs of the Duchess of Marlborough (March, 1742); Proposal for the Harleian Miscellany (November, 1742); Letter to Edward Cave, autumn 1743; Life of Savage (11 February, 1744); Introduction to the Harleian Miscellany (April, 1744); ’To Miss -, on her playing upon the harpsichord’ (1746?); Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane (September, 1747); ’The Vision of Theodore’ (7 April, 1748); The Vanity of Human Wishes (9 January, 1749); ’The Vanity of Wealth’ (February, 1750); Part II: ’Dictionary’ Johnson; The Rambler (1750-1752): 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 41, 45, 47, 49, 60, 63, 64, 70,71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79, 85, 87, 90, 93, 101, 106, 108, 113, 114, 115, 121, 129, 134, 135, 137, 142, 146, 148, 151, 156, 158, 159, 161, 165, 167, 168, 170, 171, 176, 181, 183, 184, 188, 191, 196, 207, 208; ’Life of Cheynel’ (July, 1751); Sermon . . . for the Funeral of his Wife (prob. March, 1752); ’Prayers Composed on the Death of My Wife’ (24 April-6 May 1752); The Adventurer (1752-1754): 39, 45, 50, 67, 69, 84, 85, 95, 99, 102, 107, 111, 119, 126, 137, 138; Diary entries, 22, 23, and 29 April, 1753; Letter to Thomas Warton, 16 July, 1754; ’Preface’ to the Dictionary of the English Language (15 April, 1755); Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, 7 February, 1755; Letter to Bennet Langton, 6 May, 1755; Letter to Miss Hill Boothby, 31 December, 1755; Letter to Miss Hill Boothby, 8 January, 1756; Letter to Samuel Richardson, 16 March, 1756; ’Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain’ (15 May, 1756); Review of Warton, Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (15 May, 1756); Review of Blackwell, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (15 May, 1756); ’Observations on the Present State of Affairs’ (15 August, 1756); Review of Hanway, An Essay on Tea (15 May, 1757); Review of Jenyns, Free Inquiry (15 May, 1757); ’Of the Duty of a Journalist’ (8 April, 1758); The Idler (8 April 1758-1760): 1, 5, 10, 17, [22], 22, 23, 27, 30, 31, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41, 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 72, 81, 84, 88, 94, 100, 103; Letter to Sarah Johnson, 20 January, 1759; Letter to William Strahan, 20 January, 1759; Letter to Lucy Porter, 23 January, 1759; Diary entry and prayer, 23 January, 1759; Rasselas (26 June, 1759); ’The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers’ (January, 1760); Review of Tytler’s Mary Queen of Scots (October, 1760); Part III: The Great Cham of Literature; Letter to Baretti, 10 June, 1761; Letter to Boswell, 8 December, 1763; Diary entry, 21 April, 1764; ’A Reply to Impromptu Verses by Baretti’ (1765?); Preface to The Plays of Shakespeare (10 October, 1765); Diary entry, 1 January, 1766; ’The Fountains’ (1 April, 1766); Letter to Boswell, 9 September, 1769; The False Alarm (16 January, 1770); Prayer on Easter Day, 31 March, 1771; ’Parodies of Percy’s Hermit of Warkworth’ (prob. summer 1771); ’????? ???????’ (12 December, 1772); Letter to Boswell, 24 February, 1773; Diary entry, 22 July, 1773; Diary entry, 25 July, 1774; The Patriot (12 October, 1774); Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (18 January, 1775) - selection; Letter to James Macpherson, 20 January, 1775; Taxation No Tyranny (8 March, 1775); Diary entry, 14 April, 1775; ’To Mrs Thrale on her Thirty-Fifth Birthday’ (presented 24 January, 1776); Diary entry for Easter Day, 7 April, 1776; ’Lines on Thomas Warton’s Poems’ (early 1777?); Diary entry, 28 March, 1777; ’Prologue’ to Hugh Kelly’s A Word to the Wise (29 May, 1777); Letter to William Dodd, 26 June, 1777; Letter to Richard Farmer, 22 July, 1777; ’An Extempore Elegy’ (1778?); ’A Short Song of Congratulation’ (August, 1780); Lives of the Poets (1781); Letter to Thomas Lawrence, 17 January, 1782; Diary entry, 20 January, 1782; Letter to Thomas Lawrence, 1 May, 1782; Letter to Boswell, 7 September, 1782; ’On the Death of Dr Robert Levet’ (August, 1783); Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, 2-8 July, 1784; Letter to Lord Thurlow, 9 September, 1784; Translation of Horace, Odes, IV.vii (November, 1784); Diary entry, 5 December, 1784; Appendices; Appendix A: Johnson’s prayer on beginning The Rambler.; Appendix B: Johnson’s revisions to The Rambler, no. 1.; Appendix C: Bonnell Thornton’s parody of The Rambler.; Notes; Texts Arranged by Genre; Index of Short Titles; Index of First Lines; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects

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