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:
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AND SON AT CAMBRIDGE, AND WILSON AND SON AT YORK.

1810.

CONTENTS.

VOL. VII.

POEMS OF COWLEY.

Page 1

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3

THÉ Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson .........
1 Elegia Dedicatoria ad Illustrissimam Aca-

demiam Cantabrigiensem .............

The Author's Preface to his Edition in Folio,

1656 ........

The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition

of 1674 ...

Dedication ...

The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems..

To the Reader..

Constantia and Philetus....

The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56

Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry

JI. That a pleasant Poverty is to be pre-

ferred before Discontented Riches...

III. To his Mistress .

IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A

Translation ................

..........

V. In Commendation of the Time we live

under, the Reign of our gracious

King Charles ....

VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life ......

An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge......

MISCELLANIES.

...

SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON | The Motto ....................................

SUNDRY OCCASIONS.

Ode. Of Wit......

De felici partu, Reginæ Mariæ .............

To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from

In felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem .. 60 the Northern Expedition against the Scots..

Upon the happie Birth of the Duke ............ ito.

On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton............

An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honour-

On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master

able Dudley, Lord Carleton, Viscount Dor-

at Westminster School ...........

chester, late Principal Secretary of State... ib. On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland......

An Elegy on the Death of my loving Friend On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyck, the

and Cousin, Mr. Richard Clarke, Gent, late

famous Painter ........

of Lincoln's Inn .......

Prometheus ill-painted ... .....

A Dream of Elysium ....

ib. Ode ..............

On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland ... Friendship in Absence .........

Song, on the same .........

To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge-

A Vote............

ment out of the Tower ........

A Poetical Revenge

To a Lady who made Posies for Rings.........
To the Duchess of Buckingham ........

Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince
To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue .........
A. B. ..........

On the Death of Mr. William Hervey ........
An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esq. Ode in linitation 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
his younger Brother ..........

64 | 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 Books of Gondibert, finished before his

ful Dr. A.

ib. Voyage to America...

..........

on the Blessed