The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18

The ladies of the town have infected you at a distance; they are all of your opinion, and, like my last book of Poems,[205] better than any thing they have formerly seen of mine...

Specimen of the Translation of the History of the League, 77 Dedication to the King, 81 The Author’s Advertisement to the Reader, 93 The History of the League, Book III. 101 Pos...

Birth of Charles II. star visible at, ix, 51 children, custom at, xiii, 389 Dryden, i, 26 St Francis Xavier, xvi, 15 the Prince, poem on, x, 283 the son of James II. said to be...

Parallel between Shakespeare and Dryden, v, 287 the story of the Duke of Guise and affairs in England, vii, 4 the Duke of Guise and Monmouth, not intended, ib. 144 political dis...

Horace, character of, xii, 280 translations from, ib. 339-354 Ode 3. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341 Ode 9. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Rochester,...

You may see already by this presumptuous greeting, that encouragement gives as much assurance to friendship, as it imparts to love. You may see too, that a friend may sometimes...

Being now at Sir William Bowyer’s,[123] in the country, I cannot write at large, because I find my self somewhat indisposed with a cold, and am thick of hearing, rather worse th...

Account of Gibbon’s conversion to the catholic faith, by himself, i, 316 Montague and Prior’s parody on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 330 Luke Milbourne, ib. 394 ludicrous, Dryd...

I have accused my selfe this month together, for not writing to you. I have called my selfe by the names I deserved, of unmannerly and ungratefull. I have been uneasy, and taken...

II. ib. 264 III. ib. 296, note on, ib. 322 IV. ib. 324 ib. 353 V. ib. 355 VI. ib. 388, notes on, ib. 424 VII. ib. 429 ib. 461 VIII. xv, 1 xv, 29 IX. ib. 30 ib. 62 X. ib. 64 ib....

I have here returned y^e Ovid, w^{ch} I read w^th a great deal of pleasure, and think nothing can be more entertaining; but by this letter you find I am not soe well satisfied a...

the Golden Age, ib. 66 the Silver Age, ib. 67 the Brazen Age, ib. 68 the Iron Age, ib. 68 Giants’ War, ib. 69 of Daphne into a laurel, xii, 81 Io into an heifer, ib. 85 the eyes...

_The letters to Tonson are without dates. I have retained those which Mr Malone has attached to them, from circumstances of internal evidence which it seems unnecessary to detai...

Threnodia Augustalis, x, 79 the Hind and Panther, Part I. ib. 139 II. ib. 185 III. ib. 240 Britannia Rediviva, ib. 302 Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, ib. 441 the satires of Persius, xi...

If I could have found in my selfe a fitting temper to have waited upon you, I had done it the day you dismissed my sonn[71] from the college; for he did the message: and by what...

You were no sooner gone, but I felt in my pocket, and found my Lady Chudleigh’s[136] verses; which this afternoon I gave Mr Walsh to read in the coffee-house. His opinion is the...

_The following Note and Letter contains the determination of a dispute, and probably of a wager, which had been referred to our author by the parties. It concerns a passage in C...

Even your expostulations are pleasing to me; for though they shew you angry, yet they are not without many expressions of your kindness; and therefore I am proud to be so chidde...

Heroic plays, character of, i, 118 an essay on, iv, 16 poetry, apology for, v, 105 stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8 remarks on, ib. 3 notes on, ib. 15 or rhyming...

If you have received the lines I sent by the reverend Levite, I doubt not but they have exceedingly wrought upon you; for beeing so longe in a clergyman’s pocket, assuredly they...

Epistle I. To John Hoddeson, 3 II. To Sir Robert Howard, 5 III. To Dr Charleton, 12 IV. To the Lady Castlemain, 18 V. To Mr Lee, 22 VI. To the Earl of Roscommon, 26 VII. To the...

I have reason to be pleas’d with writeing to you, because you are daily giveing me occasions to be pleas’d. The present which you made me this week, I have receiv’d; and it will...

I receiv’d your letter very kindly,[114] because indeed I expected none; but thought you as very a tradesman as Bentley,[115] who has cursed our Virgil so heartily. I shall loos...

The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man, an Opera, 89 Epistle Dedicatory to her Royal Highness the Duchess, 95 Preface. The Author’s Apology for Heroic Poetry, and Poetic Licenc...

Old men are not so insensible of beauty, as it may be, you young ladies think. For my own part, I must needs acknowledge, that your fair eyes had made me your slave before I rec...

I am much asham’d of my self, that I am so much behind-hand with you in kindness. Above all things I am sensible of your good nature, in bearing me company to this place, wherei...

To take acknowledgments of favours for favours done you, is onely yours. I am always on the receiving hand; and you, who have been pleas’d to be troubled so long with my bad com...

Your goodness to me will make you sollicitous of my welfare since I left Cotterstock. My journey has in general been as happy as it cou’d be, without the satisfaction and honour...

These verses[162] had waited on you with the former, but that they wanted that correction which I have given them, that they may the better endure the sight of so great a judge...

The letter you were pleas’d to direct for me, to be left at the coffee-house last summer, was a great honour; and your verses[170] were, I thought, too good to be a woman’s; som...

After a long expectation, Madam, at length your happy letter came to your servant, who almost despair’d of it. The onely comfort I had, was, my hopes of seeing you, and that you...

I know not whether my Lord Sunderland has interceded with your Lordship for half a yeare of my salary; but I have two other advocates, my extreme wants, even almost to arresting...

When I have either too much business or want of health, to write to you, I count my time is lost, or at least my conscience accuses me that I spend it ill. At this time my head...

Some kind of intercourse must be carryed on betwixt us, while I am translating Virgil. Therefore I give you notice, that I have done the seaventh Eneid in the country;[108] and...

_The copy money for translating the Æneid was fifty pounds for each Book. The rising of the second subscription seems, to allude to the practice of fixing a day, after which no...

The great desire which I observe in you to write well, and those good parts which God Almighty and nature have bestow’d on you, make me not to doubt, that, by application to stu...

I shou’d have received your letter with too much satisfaction, if it had not been allay’d with the bad news of my cousin your wife’s indisposition; which yet I hope will not con...

All my letters being nothing but acknowledgements of your favours to me, ’tis no wonder if they are all alike: for they can but express the same thing, I being eternally the rec...

You have done me the honour to invite so often, that it would look like want of respect to refuse it any longer. How can you be so good to an old decrepid man, who can entertain...

Pastoral I. or Tityrus and Melibœus, 369 II. or Alexis, 374 III. or Palæmon, 378 IV. or Pollio, 386 V. or Daphnis, 391 VI. or Silenus, 397 VII. or Melibœus, 402 VIII. or Pharmac...

’Tis now high time for me to think of my second subscriptions; for the more time I have for collecting them, the larger they are like to be. I have now been idle just a fortnigh...

This is onely to acquaint you, that I have taken my place in the Oundel coach for Tuesday next; and hope to be at London on Wednesday night. I had not confidence enough to hope...

For this time I must follow a bad example, and send you a shorter letter than your short one: you were hinder’d by dancers, and I am forc’d to dance attendance all this afternoo...

I desire you wou’d let Mr Pate[121] know, I can print no more names of his subscribers than I have money for, before I print their names. He has my acknowledgment of ten guineas...

As I cannot accuse myself to have receiv’d any letters from you without answer, so, on the other side, I am oblig’d to believe it, because you say it. ’Tis true, I have had so m...

’Tis a week since I received the favour of a letter, which I have not yet, acknowledg’d to you. About that time my new poems were publish’d, which are not come till this day int...

According to my promise, I have sent you all that is properly yours of my translation. I desire, as you offer’d, that it should be transcrib’d in a legible hand, and then sent b...

Though I have not leisure to thank you for the last trouble I gave you, yet haveing by me two lampoons lately made, I know not but they may be worth your reading; and therefore...

I had yesterday morning two watches sent me by Mr Tompion,[118] which I am to send my sonnes this week.[119] I cou’d not persuade him to take gold at any rate: but he will take...

I thank you heartily for the sherry; it was, as you sayd, the best of the kind I ever dranke. I have found the catalogue you desire, of the subscribers’ names you left with me;...

I have sent your poems back again, after having kept them so long from you; by which you see I am like the rest of the world, an impudent borrower, and a bad pay-master. You tak...

We have, with much ado, recover’d my younger sonn,[69] who came home extreamly sick of a violent cold, and, as he thinks him selfe, a chine-cough. The truth is, his constitution...

I remember, last year, when I had the honour of dineing with you, you were pleased to recommend to me the character of Chaucer’s “Good Parson.” Any desire of yours is a command...

I have the remainder of my Northamptonshyre rents come up this weeke, and desire the favour of you to receive them for me, from the carrier of Tocester, who lodges at the Castle...

Meeting Sir Robert Howard at the playhouse this morning, and asking him how he lik’d my seaventh Eneid, he told me you had not brought it. He goes out of town to-morrow, being S...

You truly have obliged mee; and possibly, in saying so, I am more in earnest then you can readily think; as verily hopeing, from this your copy of one “Good Parson,” to fancy so...

The Life of St Francis Xavier, of the Society of Jesus, Apostle of the Indies, and of Japan, 1 Dedication to the Queen, 3 The Author’s Advertisement to the Reader, 8

I have broken off my studies from the “Conquest of China,”[134] to review Virgil, and bestowed nine entire days upon him. You may have the printed copy you sent me to-morrow mor...

This is only a word, to threaten you with a troublesome guest, next week: I have taken places for my self and my sonn in the Oundle coach, which sets out on Thursday next the te...

Send word, if you please, Sir, what is the most you will give for my sonn’s play, that I may take the fairest chapman, as I am bound to do for his benefit; and if you have any s...

History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30 Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56 divisions of, xvii, 56 proper, what, ib. 57 of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77...