CONTENTS. PAGE Translations of all Virgil's Fourth Georgic, except the story A Song for St. Cecilia's Day at Oxford An Account of the Greatest English Poets . A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles Lord The same translated into Italian by Salvini Milton's Style imitated in a translation of a story out of the Prologue to the Tender Husband Epilogue to the British Enchantress Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II. The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Notes on some of the foregoing Stories in Ovid's Metamor- Pax Gulielmi Auspiciis Europæ reddita, 1697 IIYTMAIO-CEPANOMAXIA, sive, Prælium inter Pygmæos Resurrectio delineata ad Altare Col. Magd. Oxon. . Ad D. D. Hannes, insignissimum Medicum et Poetam DIALOGUES UPON THE USEFULNESS OF ANCIENT MEDALS, ESPE- CIALLY IN RELATION TO THE LATIN AND GREEK POETS III. Three Sets of Medals, illustrated by the Ancient Poets in the REMARKS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF ITALY, IN THE years 1701, 1702, 1703 356 INSCRIPTION TO MR. ADDISON, WRITTEN IN 1805. EXIMIO VIRO, / JOSEPHO ADDISON: HAUD IGNOBILI POETÆ; SUMMO ARTIFICI; CENSORI MORUM GRAVI SANE, SED ET PERJUCUNDO, LEVIORIBUS IN ARGUMENTIS SUBRIDENTI SUAVITÈR, RES ETIAM SERIAS LEPORE QUODAM SUO CONTINGENTI; PIETATIS, PORRÒ, SINCERÆ, HOC EST, CHRISTIANÆ, STUDIOSISSIMO CULTORI: EXIMIO, PROINDE, VIRO, JOSEPHO ADDISON, HOC MONUMENTUM SACRUM ESTO. R. W. 1805, Sept. 5. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE. DEAR SIR, I CANNOT wish that any of my writings should last longer than the memory of our friendship, and therefore I thus publicly bequeath them to you, in return for the many valuable instances of your affection. That they may come to you with as little disadvantage as possible, I have left the care of them to one, whom, by the experience of some years, I know well qualified to answer my intentions. He has already the honour and happiness of being under your protection; and, as he will very much stand in need of it, I cannot wish him better, than that he may continue to deserve the favour and countenance of such a patron. I have no time to lay out in forming such compliments, as would but ill suit that familiarity between us, which was once my greatest pleasure, and will be my greatest honour hereafter. Instead of them, accept of my hearty wishes, that the great reputation you have acquired so early may increase more and more: and that you may long serve your country with those excellent talents and unblemished integrity, which have so powerfully recommended you to the most gracious and amiable monarch that ever filled a throne. May the frankness and generosity of your spirit continue to soften and subdue your enemies, and gain you many friends, if possible, as sincere as yourself. When you have found such, they cannot wish you more true happiness than I, who am, with the greatest zeal, DEAR SIR, your most entirely affectionate Friend, And faithful obedient Servant, June 4, 1719. J. ADDISON. |