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 Aristæus, 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 Æneid, The Campaign, Cowley's Epitaph on Himself, Prologue to the 'Tender Husband,' Epilogue to the 'British Enchanters,' Prologue to Smith's 'Phædra and Hippolitus,' Horace Ode III., Book III., 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 Æsculapius, 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 Actæon 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 Fable II.--The Spaniel and the Cameleon Fable III.--The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy Fable IV.--The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals Fable V.--The Wild Boar and the Ram Fable VI.--The Miser and Plutus Fable VII.--The Lion, the Fox, and the Geese Fable VIII.--The Lady and the Wasp Fable IX.--The Bull and the Mastiff Fable X.--The Elephant and the Bookseller Fable XI.--The Peacock, the Turkey, and the Goose Fable XII.--Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus Fable XIII.--The Tame Stag Fable XIV.--The Monkey who had seen the World Fable XV.--The Philosopher and the Pheasants Fable XVI.--The Pin and the Needle Fable XVII.--The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf Fable XVIII.--The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody Fable XIX.--The Lion and the Cub Fable XX.--The Old Hen and the Cock Fable XXI.--The Rat-catcher and Cats