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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12 — John Shaqi

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12Dryden, John

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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

Name: The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12
Author: Dryden, John

Dryden, John

English literature

THE
                             WORKS
                               OF
                          JOHN DRYDEN.

                              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. XII.

                             LONDON:
          PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
             BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

                              1808.

                            CONTENTS
                               OF
                         VOLUME TWELFTH.

                                                               PAGE.

  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.

  Amaryllis,                                                     287

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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

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