The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 432 pages of information about The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase.

The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 432 pages of information about The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase.

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
  Aristaeus,

  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 AEneid,

  The Campaign,

  Cowley’s Epitaph on Himself,

  Prologue to the ‘Tender Husband,’

  Epilogue to the ‘British Enchanters,’

  Prologue to Smith’s ’Phaedra 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 AEsculapius,

  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 Actaeon
  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

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