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WORKS OF ADDISON

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOSEPH ADDISON;

GAY'S FABLES;

AND

SOMERVILLE'S CHASE.

* * * * *

With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.

* * * * *

M.DCCC.LIX.

CONTENTS.

ADDISON'S POETICAL WORKS.

LIFE OF JOSEPH ADDISON,

POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS:

To Mr Dryden,

A Poem to his Majesty, presented to the Lord Keeper,

A Translation of all Virgil's Fourth

Georgic, except the Story of Aristaeus,

A Song for St Cecilia's Day,

An Ode for St Cecilia's Day,

An Account of the greatest English Poets,

A Letter from Italy,

Milton's Style Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third AEneid,

The Campaign,

Cowley's Epitaph on Himself,

Prologue to the 'Tender Husband,'

Epilogue to the 'British Enchanters,'

Prologue to Smith's 'Phaedra and Hippolitus,'

Horace OdeIII., BookIII.,

The Vestal,

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES:

BOOK II.

The Story of Phaeton,

Phaeton's Sisters transformed into Trees,

The Transformation of Cyenus into a Swan,

The Story of Calisto,

The Story of Coronis, and Birth of AEsculapius,

Ocyrrhoe Transformed to a Mare,

The Transformation of Battus to a Touchstone,

The Story of Aglauros, transformed into a Statue,

Europa's Rape,

BOOK III.

The Story of Cadmus,

The Transformation of Actaeon into a Stag,

The Birth of Bacchus,

The Transformation of Tiresias,

The Transformation of Echo,

The Story of Narcissus,

The Story of Pentheus,

The Mariners transformed to Dolphins,

The Death of Pentheus

BOOK IV.

The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus,

TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES,

TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PICTURE OF THE KING,

THE PLAY HOUSE,

ON THE LADY MANCHESTER,

AN ODE,

AN HYMN,

AN ODE,

AN HYMN,

PARAPHRASE ON PSALM XXIII.

THE LIFE OF JOHN GAY

GAY'S FABLES:

INTRODUCTION. PART I.

The Shepherd and Philosopher

Fable I. The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveller

FableII. The Spaniel and the Cameleon

FableIII. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy

FableIV. The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals

Fable V. The Wild Boar and the Ram

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