London and the vanity of human wishes / Samuel Johnson
| dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou University of Oxford Text Archive Oxford University Computing Services Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Menston |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:50:27Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:50:27Z |
| dc.date.created | 1738 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1597 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1597 |
| dc.description.abstract | Facsimile reprints of London, originally published, London : Printed for R. Doddesley [i.e. Dodsley], 1738 with original t.p.: London : a poem in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal., and Vol. 1. pp. 101-115 in A collection of poems by several hands, London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1748; Vanity of human wishes, originally published, London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1849 with original t.p.: The vanity of human wishes : the tenth satire of Juvenal imitated by Samuel Johnson, and Vol. 4. pp. 156-170 in A collection of poems by several hands, London : Printed by J. Hughes, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 London reproduced from 1st folio ed. in Edinburgh University Library (shelfmark *S.18.32/8) and from British Museum copy of Dodsley's Collection (shelfmark 11602 c.6); Vanity of human wishes reproduced from British Museum copies of 1749 quarto (shelfmark 840 K.4(6)) and Dodsley's Collection (shelfmark C.117.aa.16) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
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| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English poetry -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.other | Poems |
| dc.title | London and the vanity of human wishes / Samuel Johnson |
| dc.type | Text |
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| identifier.ee | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/johnssamue002091 |
| identifier.ee | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/johnssamue002091 |
| identifier.lccn | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095825 |
| identifier.lccn | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095825 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<Text id=JohLoVa> <Author>Johnson, Samuel</Author> <Title>London and the Vanity of Human Wishes</Title> <Edition>Yorkshire, England: The Scolar Press, 1970</Edition> <Date>1748</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>JohLoVa101</locdoc><milestone n=101> <div0> <l>LONDON:</l> <l>A</l> <l>POEM,</l> <l>In Imitation of the</l> <l>Third Satire of Juvenal.</l> <l>By Mr. Samuel Johnson.</l> <l><i>-- --quis ineptae</l> <l>Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se?</l> <l n=1> Juv.</i></l> <l>Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel,</l> <l>When injur'd THALES bids the town farewell,</l> <l>Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend,</l> <l>I praise the hermit, but regret the friend,</l> <l>Who now resolves, from vice and LONDN far,</l> <l>To breathe in distant fields a purer air,</l> <l>And, fix'd on Cambria's solitary shore,</l> <l>Give to St. David one true Briton more.</l> </loc><loc><locdoc>JohLoVa102</locdoc><milestone n=102> <l>For who would leave, unbrib'd,Hibernia's land,</l> <l>Or change . . .
