The Poetical Works of John DrydenPDF电子书下载

POEMS，HISTORICAL，POLITICAL，AND CONTROVERSIAL． 1

A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS，OLIVER，LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND，SCOTLAND，AND IRELAND 3

ASTRAEA REDUX．A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE SECOND 13

To HIS SACRED MAJESTY，A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORONATION 24

To MY LORD CHANCELLOR．PRESENTED ON NEW YEAR＇S DAY，1662 28

VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS，ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY GAINED BY THE DUKE AGAINST THE HOLLANDERS，JUNE 3，1665，AND ON HER JOURNEY AFTERWARDS INTO THE NORTH 32

ANNUS MIRABILIS：THE YEAR OF WONDERS，1666 35

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 87

THE MEDAL．A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION 121

THREE POLITICAL PROLOGUES．1682 136

MAC FLECKNOE；OR，A SATIRE ON THE TRUE BLUE PROTESTANT POET，T．S． 141

THE SECOND PART OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 151

RELIGIO-LAICI；OR，A LAYMAN＇S FAITH 183

THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS．A FUNERAL-PINDARIC POEM．TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II 203

THE HIND AND THE PANTHER．A POEM．IN THREE PARTS 219

BRITANNIA REDIVIVA．A POEM ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE 258

EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES． 297

To John Hoddesdon，on his Divine Epigrams 299

To my honoured friend Sir Robert Howard，on his excellent Poems 300

To my honoured friend Dr．Charleton，on his learned and useful Works，and more particularly this of Stonehenge，by him restored to the true Founders 303

To the Lady Castlemaine，upon her encouraging his first Play 305

To Mr．Lee，on his Alexander 306

To the Earl of Roscomon，on his excellent Essay on Translated Verse 308

To my friend Mr．Norihleigh，Author of the Parallel，on his Triumph of the British Monarchy 310

To my ingenious friend，Henry Higden，Esq．，on his Translation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal 310

A Letter to Sir George Etherege 311

To Mr．Southern，on his Comedy called＂The Wives＇ Excuse＂ 314

To my dear friend，Mr．Congreve，on his Comedy called＂The Double Dealer＂ 315

To Sir Godfrey Kneller，principal Painter to his Majesty 317

To Mr．Granville，on his excellent Tragedy called＂Heroic Love＂ 321

To my friend Mr．Motteux，on his Tragedy called＂Beauty in Distress＂ 322

To my honoured kinsman，John Driden，of Chesterton，in the county of Huntingdon，Esq． 324

ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS． 331

Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings 333

On the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester 336

To the Memory of Mr．Oldham 337

To the pious Memory of the accomplished young lady Mrs．Anne Killigrew，excellent in the two Sister Arts of Poesy and Painting 338

Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee 343

Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore 344

Eleonora：a Panegyrical Poem．Dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon 345

On the Death of Mr．Purcell 358

On the Monument of a fair Maiden Lady who died at Bath and is there interred 359

On the Death of Amyntas．A Pastoral Elegy 360

On the Death of a very Young Gentleman 362

Upon young Mr．Rogers，of Gloucestershire 363

On Mrs．Margaret Paston，of Barningham，in Norfolk 364

SONGS，ODES，AND LYRICAL PIECES． 365

Song (Farewell，fair Armida) 367

The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon 368

Song 369

The beautiful Lady of the May 371

A Song to a fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring 372

Alexander＇s Feast；or，the Power of Music 373

A Song 377

Roundelay 378

A Song 379

A Song 380

Song of a Scholar and his Mistress，who，being crossed by their Friends，fell mad for one another，and now first meet in Bedlam 384

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES． 387

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Wild Gallant＂ 389

Prologue to＂The Rival Ladies＂ 391

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Indian Emperor＂ 392

Prologue to＂Secret Love，or the Maiden Queen＂ 393

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Wild Gallant，＂when revived in 1667 396

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Sir Martin Mar-all，or the Feigned Innocence＂ 398

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Tempest＂ 399

Prologue to＂Albumazar＂ 401

Prologue and Epilogue to＂An Evening＇s Love，or the Mock Astrologer＂ 403

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Tyrannic Love，or the Royal Martyr＂ 405

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Almanzor and Almahide，or the Conquest of Granada＂ 407

Prologue and Epilogue to the Second Part of＂Almanzor and Almahide，or the Conquest of Granada＂ 409

Prologue spoken on the First Day of the King＇s House acting after the Fire 410

Prologue to＂Arviragus and Philicia＂ 411

Prologue for the Women，when they acted at the Old Theatre in Lincoln＇s Inn Fields 412

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Maiden Queen，or Secret Love，＂when acted by the Women only 413

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Marriage-à-la-Mode＂ 414

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Assignation，or Love in a Nunnery＂ 417

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Amboyna，or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants＂ 418

Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford 420

Prologue and Epilogue spoken at the Opening of the New House 423

Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford 425

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Aureng-Zebe，or the Great Mogul＂ 427

Epilogue to＂Calista，or the chaste Nymph＂ 429

Epilogue to＂The Man of Mode，or Sir Fopling Flutter＂ 430

Prologue to＂Circe＂ 431

Prologue and Epilogue to＂All for Love，or the World Well Lost＂ 432

Epilogue to＂Mithridates，King of Pontus＂ 434

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Kind Keeper，or Limberham＂ 435

Prologue to＂The True Widow＂ 437

Prologue and Epilogue to＂OEdipus＂ 438

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Troilus and Cressida，or Truth found Too Late＂ 439

Prologue to＂Caesar Borgia，Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth＂ 441

Prologue to the University of Oxford 442

Prologue to＂The Loyal General＂ 443

Prologue to＂The Spanish Friar，or the Double Discovery＂ 444

Epilogue to＂Tamerlane the Great＂ 446

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Princess of Cleves＂ 447

Prologue to the University of Oxford 449

Prologue to the University of Oxford 450

Prologue to the University of Oxford 451

Epilogue to＂The Unhappy Favourite，or the Earl of Essex＂ 452

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Loyal Brother，or the Persian Prince＂ 453

Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen 456

Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Duke of Guise＂ 458

Epilogue to＂Constantine the Great＂ 462

Prologue to＂Disappointment，or the Mother in Fashion＂ 463

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Albion and Albanius＂ 465

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Don Sebastian＂ 467

Prologue to＂The Prophetess＂ 469

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Amphitryon，or the Two Sosias＂ 470

Prologue to＂Mistakes，or the False Report＂ 472

Prologue and Epilogue to＂King Arthur，or the British Worthy＂ 473

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Cleomenes，or the Spartan Hero＂ 475

Epilogue to＂Henry II．，King of England，with the Death of Rosamond＂ 478

Prologue and Epilogue to＂Love Triumphant，or Nature will Prevail＂ 479

Epilogue to＂The Husband his own Cuckold＂ 481

Prologue and Epilogue on the Occasion of a Representation for Dryden＇s Benefit 482

TRANSLATIONS FROM CHAUCER AND BOCCACIO． 487

To her Grace the Duchess of Ormond，with the following Poem of Palamon and Arcite from Chaucer 507

Palamon and Arcite，or the Knight＇s Tale．From Chaucer．In Three Books 512

The Cock and the Fox，or the Tale of the Nun＇s Priest．From Chaucer 564

The Flower and the Leaf，or the Lady in the Arbour．A Vision 581

The Wife of Bath her Tale 594

The Character of a Good Parson．Imitated from Chaucer，and enlarged 605

Sigismonda and Guiscardo．From Boccace 608

Theodore and Honoria．From Boccace 624

Cymon and Iphigenia．From Boccace 633

TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN HYMNS AND MINOR MISCELLANIES． 647

Veni，Creator Splritus．Translated in Paraphrase 649

Te Deum 650

Hymn for St．John＇s Eve，29th June 651

Lines printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton，in Tonson＇s folio edition of the＂Paradise Lost，＂1688 652

Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson，his Publisher 653

GLOSSARY 655