
The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 17
by John Dryden
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- THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN.
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME SEVENTEENTH.
- THE LIFE OF PLUTARCH.
- THE LIFE OF PLUTARCH.
- TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ORMOND, &c.
- THE LIFE OF PLUTARCH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SPECIMEN OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE.
- HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE.
- TO THE KING.
- THE AUTHOR’S DEDICATION TO THE FRENCH KING.[16]
- THE AUTHOR’S ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
- THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE. LIB. III.
- THE POSTSCRIPT OF THE TRANSLATOR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTROVERSY BETWEEN DRYDEN AND STILLINGFLEET, CONCERNING THE DUCHESS OF YORK’S PAPER.
- CONTROVERSY BETWEEN DRYDEN AND STILLINGFLEET, CONCERNING THE DUCHESS OF YORK’S PAPER.
- COPY OF A PAPER WRITTEN BY THE LATE DUCHESS OF YORK, &c.
- AN ANSWER TO THE DUCHESS’S PAPER. BY THE REVEREND EDWARD STILLINGFLEET.[57]
- A DEFENCE OF THE PAPER WRITTEN BY THE DUCHESS OF YORK, AGAINST THE ANSWER MADE TO IT.
- AN ANSWER TO THE DEFENCE OF THE THIRD PAPER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ART OF PAINTING;
- ART OF PAINTING, &c.
- TO Mr JERVAS, WITH FRESNOY’S ART OF PAINTING, TRANSLATED BY MR DRYDEN.
- TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
- A PARALLEL OF POETRY AND PAINTING.
- THE PREFACE OF MONSIEUR DE PILES, THE FRENCH TRANSLATOR.
- DE ARTE GRAPHICA LIBER.
- THE ART OF PAINTING.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE ART OF PAINTING OF CHARLES ALPHONSE DU FRESNOY.
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- THE JUDGMENT OF CHARLES ALPHONSE DU FRESNOY, ON THE WORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL AND BEST PAINTERS OF THE TWO LAST AGES.
- FOOTNOTES:
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