’A Collection of Proverbs from various languages.  Jan. 6,—­53.

’A Dictionary to the Common Prayer, in imitation of Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible.  March, 52.

’A Collection of Stories and Examples, like those of Valerius Maximus.  Jan. 10,—­53.

’From Aelian, a volume of select Stories, perhaps from others.  Jan. 28,-53.

’Collection of Travels, Voyages, Adventures, and Descriptions of Countries.

’Dictionary of Ancient History and Mythology.

’Treatise on the Study of Polite Literature, containing the history of learning, directions for editions, commentaries, &c.

’Maxims, Characters, and Sentiments, after the manner of Bruyere, collected out of ancient authours, particularly the Greek, with Apophthegms.

’Classical Miscellanies, Select Translations from ancient Greek and Latin authours.

’Lives of Illustrious Persons, as well of the active as the learned, in imitation of Plutarch.

’Judgement of the learned upon English authours.

’Poetical Dictionary of the English tongue.

’Considerations upon the present state of London.

’Collection of Epigrams, with notes and observations.

’Observations on the English language, relating to words, phrases, and modes of Speech.

’Minutiae Literariae, Miscellaneous reflections, criticisms, emendations, notes.

’History of the Constitution.

’Comparison of Philosophical and Christian Morality, by sentences collected from the moralists and fathers.

’Plutarch’s Lives, in English, with notes.

’POETRY and works of IMAGINATION.

’Hymn to Ignorance.

’The Palace of Sloth,—­a vision.

’Coluthus, to be translated.

’Prejudice,—­a poetical essay.

‘The Palace of Nonsense,—­a vision.’

Johnson’s extraordinary facility of composition, when he shook off his constitutional indolence, and resolutely sat down to write, is admirably described by Mr. Courtenay, in his Poetical Review, which I have several times quoted: 

     ’While through life’s maze he sent a piercing view,
      His mind expansive to the object grew. 
      With various stores of erudition fraught,
      The lively image, the deep-searching thought,
      Slept in repose;—­but when the moment press’d,
      The bright ideas stood at once confess’d;
      Instant his genius sped its vigorous rays,
      And o’er the letter’d world diffus’d a blaze: 
      As womb’d with fire the cloud electrick flies,
      And calmly o’er th’ horizon seems to rise;
      Touch’d by the pointed steel, the lightning flows,
      And all th’ expanse with rich effulgence glows.’