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The Works of John Dryden, Volume 18 of 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index

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THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY WALTER SCOTT, Esq. VOL. XVIII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET, BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1808.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTEENTH.
PREFACE TO A DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN; BEING A DEFENCE OF THE SEX, ADDRESSED TO EUGENIA, BY WILLIAM WALSH, ESQ. 8VO, 1691.
PREFACE TO A DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN.
PREFACE TO WALSH’S DIALOGUE CONCERNING WOMEN.
CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
CHARACTER OF M. ST. EVREMONT.
THE CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS. FIRST PRINTED IN OCTAVO, IN 1692.
CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS.
THE CHARACTER OF POLYBIUS, AND HIS WRITINGS.
THE LIFE OF LUCIAN. FIRST PRINTED IN 8VO, IN 1711.
THE LIFE OF LUCIAN.
THE LIFE OF LUCIAN.
DRYDEN’S LETTERS.
LETTERS OF DRYDEN.
DRYDEN’S LETTERS. LETTER I. TO THE FAIRE HANDS OF MADAME HONOR DRYDEN THESE CRAVE ADMITTANCE.56
- LETTER II. TO [JOHN WILMOT,] EARL OF ROCHESTER.
- LETTER III.
- LETTER IV. TO THE REV. DR BUSBY.
- LETTER V. TO THE REV. DR BUSBY.
- LETTER VI. TO LAURENCE HYDE, EARL OF ROCHESTER76
- LETTER VII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER VIII. FROM JACOB TONSON TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.
- LETTER IX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.94
- LETTER X. MR JOHN DENNIS101 TO MR DRYDEN.
- LETTER XI. TO MR JOHN DENNIS. [In answer to the foregoing.]
- LETTER XII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XIII. TO MR JACOB TONSON,
- LETTER XIV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XVIII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XIX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XX. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXII. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXIII. TO HIS SONS AT ROME.
- LETTER XXIV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXV. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXVI. TO MR JACOB TONSON.
- LETTER XXVII. TO MRS STEWARD.143
- LETTER XXVIII. TO ELMES STEWARD, ESQ.
- LETTER XXIX. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXX. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXI. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIV. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXV. TO SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ.157
- LETTER XXXVI. ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING BY MR PEPYS.
- LETTER XXXVII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXVIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XXXIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE.161
- LETTER XL. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLI TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.169
- LETTER XLII. TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.174
- LETTER XLIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLIV. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLV. TO MRS ELIZABETH THOMAS, JUN.
- LETTER XLVI. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLVII. TO MRS STEWARD.
- LETTER XLVIII. TO MRS STEWARD.
APPENDIX.
APPENDIX.
No. I.
No. II. DRYDEN’S PATENT. Pat. 22. Car. II. p. 6. n. 6.
No. III. THE AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE FABLES
No. IV. MR RUSSEL’s BILL FOR MR DRYDEN’S FUNERALLS.
No. V. MRS THOMAS’S LETTERS CONCERNING DRYDEN’S DEATH AND FUNERAL; Extracted from Wilson’s Life of Congreve, 1730.
- Mr Charles Dryden’s Letter to Corinna.
No. VI. MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH AT TICHMARSH.
No. VII. EXTRACT FROM AN EPISTOLARY POEM, TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ. OCCASIONED BY THE MUCH-LAMENTED DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. JAMES EARL OF ABINGDON; BY WILLIAM PITTIS, LATE FELLOW OF NEW-COLLEGE, IN OXON.
- THE PREFACE.
- POEM.
No. VIII. EXTRACTS FROM POEMS ATTACKING DRYDEN, FOR HIS SILENCE UPON THE DEATH OF QUEEN MARY.
URANIA’S TEMPLE; OR, A SATIRE UPON THE SILENT POETS.
No. IX. VERSES OCCASIONED BY READING MR DRYDEN’S FABLES. INSCRIBED TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. BY MR JABEZ HUGHES.
- TO THE READER.
- UPON READING MR DRYDEN’S FABLES.
No. IX. AN ODE BY WAY OF ELEGY, ON THE UNIVERSALLY LAMENTED DEATH OF THE INCOMPARABLE MR DRYDEN.
AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR DRYDEN.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
No. X. TO THE MEMORY OF MR DRYDEN, A POEM.
No. XI. EXTRACT FROM POETÆ BRITANNICI. A POEM, SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL.
No. XII. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NINE MUSES; Or, Poems written by nine several Ladies, upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.
No. XIII. VERSES IN PRAISE OF MR DRYDEN. To Mr Dryden, by Jo. Addison, Esq.
INDEX.
GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- VOLUME FIRST.
- VOLUME SECOND.
- VOLUME THIRD.
- VOLUME FOURTH.
- VOLUME FIFTH.
- VOLUME SIXTH.
- VOLUME SEVENTH.
- VOLUME EIGHTH.
- VOLUME NINTH.
- VOLUME TENTH.
- VOLUME ELEVENTH.
- VOLUME TWELFTH.
- VOLUME THIRTEENTH.
- VOLUME FOURTEENTH.
- VOLUME FIFTEENTH.
- VOLUME SIXTEENTH.
- VOLUME SEVENTEENTH.
- VOLUME EIGHTEENTH.
- FINIS.
DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
FOOTNOTES:
- The Confederates, or the First Happy Day of the Island Princess.
- Transcriber's Note: