WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH DRYDEN, SMITH, DUKE, PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. THE ADDITIONAL LIVES BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F. S. A. IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES. VOL. IX. LONDON: 1810. HALIFAX, PARNELL, GARTH, ROWE, PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON; 10487, Harvard College Library, Nov. 14, 1891. LOWELL BEQUEST, 1273 KF 9692 C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, The first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses The Giant's War.. ..................... ...... The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel.. The Transformation of lo into an Heifer Esacus transformed into a Cormorant. From the eleventh Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 101 The twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses. From the thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses., 108 The Death of Ajax ................. .................... The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea. From the thirteenth Book of Ovid's Meta- morphoses Of the Pythagorean Philosophy. From the fifteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses... 114 ..... ............. Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations. 148 Amaryllis: or, the third Idyllium of Theocri- The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the Idyllium of Theocritus ................................ The Transformation of Syrinx into Reeds...... ib. The Beginning of the first Book of Lucretius.. 157 Meleager and Atalanta. Out of the eighth The Beginning of the second Book of Lucre- Cinegras and Myrrha. Out of the tenth Book From the fifth Book of Lucretius 90 The third Ode of the first Book of Horace. In- scribed to the Earl of Roscommon on his ... The ninth Ode of the first Book of Horace 159 94 The twenty-ninth Ode of the third Book of Horace paraphrased in Pindaric Verse, and |