THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Efq; CONTAINING ALL HIS ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AN D TRANSLATION S. Now firft Collected and Published together IN FOUR VOLUMES. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS. VOLUME THE FIRST. LONDON: Printed for J. and R. TONSON, in the Strand, MDCCLX. то HIS GRACE The DUKE of NEWCASTLE. MY LORD, IF F I prefume to address to your Grace these Miscellanies of one of our greatest English poets, now first collected and illuftrated with Notes; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor. To whom can these poems be more properly inscribed than to such a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen; a nobleman of the first distinction, known to love polite learning, because he understands and tastes it; and eminent for his candour, no lefs than his difcernment? |