The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE, FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Mar. 11777

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays furprife,
And bid alternate paffions fall and rife.....
The power of mufic all our hearts allow,
And what Timotheus was is DRYDEN now.

Behold where DRYDEN'S lefs prefumptuous car

Wide o'er the fields of glory bear

Two courfers of ethereal race,

POPE.

With necks in thunder cloath'd, and long-refounding pace.

Hark, his hands the lyre explore!

Bright-ey'd Fancy hov'ring o'er,

Scatters from her pictur'd urn

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

But ah! 'tis heard no more......

GRAY.

HELIOTAC

AT THE Apollo Peels, BY THE MARTI
Anno 1778.

LIBERTE
PATRIE

:

But fee where artful DRYDEN next appears,
Grown old in rhyme, but charming even in years!
Great DRYDEN next! whofe tuneful Mufe afforda
The sweetest numbers and the fittest words.
Whether in comie founds or tragic airs

She forms her voice, fhe moves our fmiles or tears.

If fatire or heroic strains the writes,

Her hero pleafes, and her fatire bites.
From her no harsh unartful numbers fall;
She wears all drefes, and fhe charms in all.

ADDISON.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Piefs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1778.