SELECT WORKS

OF THE

BRITISH POETS,

IN

A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES FROM BEN JONSON

TO BEATTIE.

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES.

BY DR. AIKIN.

TENTH EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

THOMAS WAR D L E.

Page

57

ib.

IV.

Page

Paradise Lost. In Twelve Books.

BEN JONSON.

Book I.

29

II,

35

To William Camden.....

2

III.

43

From Cynthia's Revels..

ib. IV.

49

From the Silent Woman.

ib.

V.

Hags....

VI.

64

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, Sister

VII.

70

to Sir Philip Sidney..

ib. VIII.

75

On Lucy Countess of Bedford.

3

IX.

80

Song to Celia...

ib.

X.

89

To the same

ib.

XI.

97

From the Shepherd's Holiday.

ib. XII.

10

Love, a little Boy. From the Masque on Paradise Regained. In Four Books.

Lord Haddington's Marriage..

ib. Book I.

109

Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H..

4

II.

113

III.

117

120

COWLEY.

Samson Agonistes; a Dramatic Poem 126

Christmas Hymn

140

The Motto. Tentanda via est, &c.

6

Honor....

ib.

Of Myself

ib.

WALLER.

The Chronicle. A Ballad...

ib.

Anacreontics; or some Copies of Verses, trans To Amoret.

143

lated paraphrastically out of Anacreon. To the Same

ib.

I. Love...

7 Of Love...

ib.

II. Drinking

ib. Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs

144

III. Beauty

ib. A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the

V. Age

8 Present Greatness, and Joint Interest, of

VII. Gold

ib. his Highness and this Nation

ib.

VIII. The Epicure.

ib. Of English Verse ..

146

IX. Another

ib. The Story of Phæbus and Daphne applied .. ib.

X. The Grasshopper

ib. Song

ib.

XI. The Swallow...

ib. To Phyllis

ib.

Elegy upon Anacreon; who was choked by On a Girdle

147

a Grape-stone. Spoken by the God of To Zelinda ..

Love ...

9 To a Lady..

ib.

Ode, from Catullus, Acme and Septimius 10

The Complaint..

ib.

DRYDEN.

Hymn to Light.

11

Against Hope.

12

Annus Mirabilis : the Year of Wonders, 1666 149

13

Claudian's Old Man of Verona.

ib.

Alexander's Feast : or, the Power of Music.

The Wish....

An Ode in honor of St. Cecilia's Day.... 160

ib.

From the Davideis.

14 Palamon and Arcite : or, the Knight's Tale.

In Three Books.

Book I.

162

MILTON

II.

166

III.

171

Jlegro

17 The Wife of Bath, her Tale....

179

KA

18 The Character of a Good Parson.

183

19 Theodore and Honoria .

184

Com us..

21 Religio Laici. An Epistle

187

ib.

For Hope.

L'A

enseroso.

Lyce das.