THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIVGE AND SON: LEIGH AND SOTHEBY ; R. FAULDER AND SON: G. NICHOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND 1810. ... CONTENTS. 3 #sacus transformed into a Cormorant. From Preface prefixed to the Fables ............ the eleventh Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 101 The twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, " | wholly translated .......... To her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses. From the , Poem of Palamon and Arcite.................. thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.. 108 Palamon and Arcite; or, the Knight's Tale. | The Death of Ajax ................................. 112 Book I. ......................... The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea. From the thirteenth Book of Ovid's Meta. morphoses ..................... ........................... 113 Of the Pythagorean Philosophy. From the The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the fifteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ... 114. The Flower and the Leaf : or, the Lady in TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S EPISTLES. The Character of a good Parson 54 Canace to Macareus, Epist. xi. .................... 127 Helen to Paris, Epist. xvii.......................... 128 Dido to Æneas, Epist, vii. ......... Sigismonda and Guiscardo........... Translation from Ovid's Art of Lave. The Cymon and Iphigenia. Poeta Loquitur ...... TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES. The first Book of Homer's Ilias.................. 134 70 The last Parting of Hector and Andromache. The first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ...... From the sixth Book of the Iliad ............ 145 TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS, LUCRETIOS, AND The Giant's War............... ib. Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations. 148 The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel.. Amaryllis: or, the third Idyllium of Theocri- 86 From the Idyllium of Theocritus ............. The Transformation of Syrinx into Reeds...... | The Beginning of the first Book of Lucretius.. 157 Meleager and Atalanta. Out of the eighth The Beginning of the second Book of Lucre- Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses... Baucis and Philemon. Out of the eighth From the fifth Book of Lucretius ....... 90 The third Ode of the first Book of Horace. In- The Pable of Ipbis and lanthe. From the scribed to the Earl of Roscommon on his ninth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ...... 92 intended Voyage to Ireland .......... Pygmalion and the Statue. From the tenth The ninth Ode of the first Book of Horace ... 159 Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ................ The twenty-ninth Ode of the third Book of Cinegras and Myrrha. Out of the tenth Book Horace parapbrased in Pindaric Verse, and ib. inscribed to the right hon. Laurence Earl Ceyx and Alcyone. Out of the tenth Book of of Rochester ........... Ovid's Metamorphoses ..................... 97 The second Epode of Horace..................... 160 |