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قراءة كتاب The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 9 (of 18)
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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. IX.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1808.
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME NINTH.
| PAGE. | |
| Poems, Historical and Political. | |
| Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell, | 3 |
| Notes, | 15 |
| Astrea Redux, | 25 |
| Notes, | 41 |
| To his Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on his Coronation, | 53 |
| Notes, | 59 |
| To Lord Chancellor Hyde, presented on New-year's-day, 1662, | 63 |
| Satire on the Dutch, | 71 |
| To her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, on the | |
| Victory gained by the Duke over the Dutch, &c. | 73 |
| Notes, | 79 |
| Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, 1666, an Historical Poem, | 81 |
| Dedication to the Metropolis of Great Britain, | 89 |
| An Account of Annus Mirabilis, in a Letter | |
| to the Hon. Sir Robert Howard, | 92 |
| Notes, | 158 |
| Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. | 195 |
| To the Reader, | 208 |
| Notes on Part I. | 249 |
| Part II. | 319 |
| Notes on Part II. | 354 |
| The Medal, a Satire against Sedition, | 407 |
| Epistle to the Whigs, | 417 |
| Notes, | 441 |
POEMS,
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL.
HEROIC STANZAS
TO
THE MEMORY OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
These verses compose the earliest of our author's political poems, and are among the first which he wrote, of any length or consequence. The first edition is now before me, by the favour of my friend Richard Heber, Esq.; and, while correcting this sheet, I received another copy from Mr Finlay, author of the "Vale of Ellerslie." It is of the last degree of rarity, since it has escaped the researches even of Mr Malone. The full title is, "A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland; written by Mr Dryden. London, printed for William Wilson, and are to be sold in Well-Yard, near Little St