The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18Dryden, John
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18
Dryden, John
English literature
A Song, 180
A Song to a fair young Lady, 181
Alexander’s Feast, or the power of Music, an Ode, 183
Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased, 190
FABLES.--TALES FROM CHAUCER.
Dedication to the Duke of Ormond, 195
Preface prefixed to the Fables, 205
Palamon and Arcite; or the Knight’s Tale, 241
Dedication to the Duchess of Ormond, 245
The Cock and the Fox; or the Tale of the Nun’s Priest, 327
The Flower and the Leaf; or the Lady in the Arbour, 356
The Wife of Bath, her Tale, 377
The Character of a good Parson, 395
FABLES.--TRANSLATIONS FROM BOCCACE.
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, 403
Theodore and Honoria, 433
Cymon and Iphigenia, 452
VOLUME TWELFTH.
Appendix to the Fables, i
The Knightes Tale, by Chaucer, iii
The Nonnes Preestes Tale, liii
The Floure and the Leafe, lxviii
The Wif of Bathes Tale, lxxxii
TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID’S EPISTLES.
Preface, 3
Canace to Macareus, 21
Helen to Paris, 26
Dido to Æneas, 35
TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID’S METAMORPHOSES.
Dedication to Lord Radcliffe, 47
The first Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 63
Meleager and Atalanta, 97
Baucis and Philemon, 109
Iphis and Ianthe, 116
Pygmalion and the Statue, 123
Cinyras and Myrrha, 127
Ceyx and Alcyone, 139
Æsacus transformed into a Cormorant, 154
The Twelfth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 156
The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, 181
Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, 199
Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, 207
TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID’S ART OF LOVE.
Preface on Translation, prefixed to Dryden’s Second Miscellany, 263
TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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