OF

JOSEPH ADDISON,

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS
COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

EDITED,

WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE.

"No whiter page than Addison remains,

He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth;

Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,

And pours each human virtue thro' the heart."--Porr.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.

1854,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE.

vii

EDITOR'S PREFACE,

MACAULAY, ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON,

NOTICE OF HURD,

NOTICE AND EXTRACTS PREFIXED TO HURD'S EDITION,

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xiii

1

2

Translation of Virgil's Fourth Georgic,

25

Milton's Stile Imitated in a Translation out of the Third Æneid, 39

The Story of Coronis, and Birth of Esculapius,

Ocyrrhöe transformed to a Man,

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Transformation of Battus to a Touch-Stone,

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The Story of Aglauros, transformed into a Statue,

Book IV.-Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus,

Notes on the Stories from Ovid,

POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

Introductory Remarks,

To Mr. Dryden,

An Account of the Greatest English Poets,

98

99

101

105

107

112

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139

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141

Lines to the King. Presented to the Lord Keeper,

148

Divine Ode, made by a Gentleman on the conclusion of his

Hymn.-When rising from the Bed of Death,

203

205

Introductory Remarks to the Drummer,

Steele's Epistle Dedicatory to Mr. Congreve,

To the Countess of Warwick on her Marriage,

Preface to the Drummer,

Epilogue,

Слто,

Introductory Remarks to Cato,

Verses to the Author of the Tragedy of Cato,

Prologue, by Mr. Pope,

227

265

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Epilogue, by Dr. Garth,

462

To the Princess of Wales, with the Tragedy of Cato,