The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Cowley, Denham, Milton

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THE

WORKS

OF THE

ENGLISH POETS,

FROM CHAUCER TO COW PER;

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.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. VII.

POEMS OF COWLEY.

ib.

Page

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THE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ....... 3 Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry

65
Elegia Dedicatoria ad Illustrissimam Aca 11. That a Pleasant Poverty is to be pre-
demiam Cantabrigiensem ....

41

ferred before Discontented Riches... ib.
be Author's Preface to his Edition in Folio,

III. To his Mistress

1656 ......

42 IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A

'he Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition

Translation ....

66

of 1674

48 V. In Commendation of the Time we live

Yedication *..........

ib.

under, the Reign of our gracious

The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems.. 49

King Charles .......

ib.

o the Reader...........

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

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

onstantia and Philetus..........

51

he Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56

MISCELLANIES.

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

67

SUNDRY OCCASIONS.

Ode. Of Wiț.........,

ib.

e felici parta, Reginæ Mariæ

59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from

a felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem .. 60 the Northern Expedition against the Scots.. 68

pon the happie Birth of the Duke

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

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...... 69
n 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

ib.

of Lincoln's Inn

61 Prometheus ill-painted

n his Majesty's Return out of Scotland 62 Friendship in Absence

ib.

mny, on the same

ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge-

Vote.....