The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18
by John Dryden
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- THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY WALTER SCOTT, Esq. VOL. XVIII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET, BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1808.
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTEENTH.
- PREFACE TO A DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN; BEING A DEFENCE OF THE SEX, ADDRESSED TO EUGENIA, BY WILLIAM WALSH, ESQ. 8VO, 1691.
- PREFACE TO A DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN.
- PREFACE TO WALSH’S DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN.
- CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
- CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
- CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
- THE CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS. FIRST PRINTED IN OCTAVO, IN 1692.
- CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS.
- THE CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS, AND HIS WRITINGS.
- THE LIFE OF LUCIAN. FIRST PRINTED IN 8VO, IN 1711.
- THE LIFE OF LUCIAN.
- THE LIFE OF LUCIAN.
- DRYDEN’S LETTERS.
- LETTERS OF DRYDEN.
- DRYDEN’S LETTERS. LETTER I. TO THE FAIRE HANDS OF MADAME HONOR DRYDEN THESE CRAVE ADMITTANCE.56
- LETTER II. TO [JOHN WILMOT,] EARL OF ROCHESTER.
- LETTER III.
- LETTER IV. TO THE REV. DR BUSBY.
- LETTER V. TO THE REV. DR BUSBY.
- LETTER VI. TO LAURENCE HYDE, EARL OF ROCHESTER76
- LETTER VII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER VIII. FROM JACOB TONSON TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.
- LETTER IX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.94
- LETTER X. MR JOHN DENNIS101 TO MR DRYDEN.
- LETTER XI. TO MR JOHN DENNIS. [In answer to the foregoing.]
- LETTER XII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XIII. TO MR JACOB TONSON,
- LETTER XIV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVIII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XIX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXIII. TO HIS SONS AT ROME.
- LETTER XXIV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXVI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXVII. TO MRS STEWARD.143
- LETTER XXVIII. TO ELMES STEWARD, ESQ.
- LETTER XXIX. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXX. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXI. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIV. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXV. TO SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ.157
- LETTER XXXVI. ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING BY MR PEPYS.
- LETTER XXXVII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXVIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE.161
- LETTER XL. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLI TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.169
- LETTER XLII. TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.174
- LETTER XLIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLIV. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLV. TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.
- LETTER XLVI. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLVII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLVIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- APPENDIX.
- APPENDIX.
- No. I.
- No. II. DRYDEN’S PATENT. Pat. 22. Car. II. p. 6. n. 6.
- No. III. THE AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE FABLES
- No. IV. MR RUSSEL’s BILL FOR MR DRYDEN’S FUNERALLS.
- No. V. MRS THOMAS’S LETTERS CONCERNING DRYDEN’S DEATH AND FUNERAL; Extracted from Wilson’s Life of Congreve, 1730.
- Mr Charles Dryden’s Letter to Corinna.
- No. VI. MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH AT TICHMARSH.
- No. VII. EXTRACT FROM AN EPISTOLARY POEM, TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ. OCCASIONED BY THE MUCH-LAMENTED DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. JAMES EARL OF ABINGDON; BY WILLIAM PITTIS, LATE FELLOW OF NEW-COLLEGE, IN OXON.
- THE PREFACE.
- POEM.
- No. VIII. EXTRACTS FROM POEMS ATTACKING DRYDEN, FOR HIS SILENCE UPON THE DEATH OF QUEEN MARY.
- URANIA’S TEMPLE; OR, A SATIRE UPON THE SILENT POETS.
- No. IX. VERSES OCCASIONED BY READING MR DRYDEN’S FABLES. INSCRIBED TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. BY MR JABEZ HUGHES.
- TO THE READER.
- UPON READING MR DRYDEN’S FABLES.
- No. IX. AN ODE BY WAY OF ELEGY, ON THE UNIVERSALLY LAMENTED DEATH OF THE INCOMPARABLE MR DRYDEN.
- AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR DRYDEN.
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- VIII.
- No. X. TO THE MEMORY OF MR DRYDEN, A POEM.
- No. XI. EXTRACT FROM POETÆ BRITANNICI. A POEM, SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL.
- No. XII. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NINE MUSES; Or, Poems written by nine several Ladies, upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.
- No. XIII. VERSES IN PRAISE OF MR DRYDEN. To Mr Dryden, by Jo. Addison, Esq.
- INDEX.
- GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- VOLUME FIRST.
- VOLUME SECOND.
- VOLUME THIRD.
- VOLUME FOURTH.
- VOLUME FIFTH.
- VOLUME SIXTH.
- VOLUME SEVENTH.
- VOLUME EIGHTH.
- VOLUME NINTH.
- VOLUME TENTH.
- VOLUME ELEVENTH.
- VOLUME TWELFTH.
- VOLUME THIRTEENTH.
- VOLUME FOURTEENTH.
- VOLUME FIFTEENTH.
- VOLUME SIXTEENTH.
- VOLUME SEVENTEENTH.
- VOLUME EIGHTEENTH.
- FINIS.
- DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- The Confederates, or the First Happy Day of the Island Princess.
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