Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон)

On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat

Wear the gown and wear the hat,
Snatch thy pleasures while they last;
Hadst thou nine lives, like a cat,
Soon those nine lives would be pass'd.

1. To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
2. Drury-Lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
3. On Seeing a Bust of Mrs. Montague
4. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.
5. Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides

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