THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. THE ADDITIONAL LIVES BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F.S. A. IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES. VOL. VII. COWLEY, I DENHAM, I MILTON. LONDON: 1810. CONTENTS. ...... THE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ......... 3 Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry .. II, That a pleasant Poverty is to be pre- ferred before Discontented Riches... The Author's Preface to his Edition in Folio, III. To his Mistress IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition V. In Commendation of the Time we live Dedication ... under, the Reign of our gracious The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems.. To tbe Reader....... VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life | An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56 SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON | The Motto ....... De felici partu, Reginæ Mariæ .................. 59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from at Westminster School ...... famous Painter .... Prometheus ill-painted ... ....... .............. ib. | Ode ................................... On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland ...... 62 Friendship in Absence ............ ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, up on bis Enlarge- ment out of the Tower ......... To a Lady who made Posies for Rings......... Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue ................ On the Death of Mr. William Hervey ........ An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who In Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L. V. Ep. was drowned leaping into the Water to save ............................................ The Chronicle. A Ballad ....... A Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two First gin, written in Latin by the Right Worship- ....... |