The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase. John Gay
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I.
The Shepherd and Philosopher
Fable I.—The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveller
Fable II.—The Spaniel and the Cameleon
Fable III.—The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy
Fable IV.—The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals
Fable V.—The Wild Boar and the Ram
Fable VI.—The Miser and Plutus
Fable VII.—The Lion, the Fox, and the Geese
Fable VIII.—The Lady and the Wasp
Fable IX.—The Bull and the Mastiff
Fable X.—The Elephant and the Bookseller
Fable XI.—The Peacock, the Turkey, and the Goose
Fable XII.—Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus
Fable XIII.—The Tame Stag
Fable XIV.—The Monkey who had seen the World
Fable XV.—The Philosopher and the Pheasants
Fable XVI.—The Pin and the Needle
Fable XVII.—The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf
Fable XVIII.—The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody
Fable XIX.—The Lion and the Cub
Fable XX.—The Old Hen and the Cock
Fable XXI.—The Rat-catcher and Cats
Fable XXII.—The Goat without a Beard
Fable XXIII.—The Old Woman and her Cats
Fable XXIV.—The Butterfly and the Snail
Fable XXV.—The Scold and the Parrot
Fable XXVI.—The Cur and the Mastiff
Fable XXVII.—The Sick Man and the Angel
Fable XXVIII.—The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud
Fable XXIX.—The Fox at the point of Death
Fable XXX.—The Setting-dog and the Partridge
Fable XXXI.—The Universal Apparition
Fable XXXII.—The Two Owls and the Sparrow
Fable XXXIII.—The Courtier and Proteus
Fable XXXIV.—The Mastiffs
Fable XXXV.—The Barley-mow and the Dunghill
Fable XXXVI.—Pythagoras and the Countryman
Fable XXXVII.—The Farmer's Wife and the Raven
Fable XXXVIII.—The Turkey and the Ant
Fable XXXIX.—The Father and Jupiter
Fable XL.—The Two Monkeys
Fable XLI.—The Owl and the Farmer
Fable XLII.-The Jugglers
Fable XLIII.-The Council of Horses
Fable XLIV.—The Hound and the Huntsman
Fable XLV.—The Poet and the Rose
Fable XLVI.—The Cur, the Horse, and the Shepherd's Dog
Fable XLVII.—The Court of Death
Fable XLVIII.—The Gardener and the Hog
Fable XLIX.—The Man and the Flea
Fable L.—The Hare and many Friends
PART II.
Fable I.—The Dog and the Fox
Fable II.—The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds
Fable III.—The Baboon and the Poultry
Fable IV.—The Ant in Office
Fable V.—The Bear in a Boat
Fable VI.—The Squire and his Cur
Fable VII.—The Countryman and Jupiter
Fable VIII.—The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly
Fable IX.—The Jackall, Leopard, and other Beasts
Fable X.—The Degenerate Bees
Fable XI.—The Pack-horse and the Carrier
Fable XII.—Pan and Fortune
Fable XIII.-Plutus, Cupid, and Time
Fable XIV.—The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer
Fable XV.—The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox
Fable XVI.—The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-worm
SONGS:—
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan
A Ballad, from the What-d'ye-call-it
SOMERVILLE'S CHASE.
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SOMERVILLE
SOMERVILLE'S CHASE:—
Book I.
Book II.
Book III.
Book IV.
LIFE OF JOSEPH ADDISON.
Joseph Addison, the Spectator, the true founder of our periodical literature, the finest, if not the greatest writer in the English language, was born at Milston, Wiltshire, on the 1st of May 1672. A fanciful mind might trace a correspondence between the particular months when celebrated men have been born and the peculiar complexion of their genius. Milton, the austere and awful, was born in the silent and gloomy month of December. Shakspeare, the most versatile of all writers, was born in April, that month of changeful skies, of sudden sunshine, and sudden showers. Burns and Byron, those stormy spirits, both appeared in the fierce January; and of the former, he himself says,
"'Twas then a blast o' Januar-win'
Blew welcome in on Robin."
Scott, the broad sunny being, visited us in August, and in the same month the warm genius of Shelley came, as Hunt used to tell him, "from the planet Mercury" to our earth. Coleridge and Keats, with whose song a deep bar of sorrow was to mingle, like the music of falling leaves, or of winds wailing for the departure of summer, arrived in October—that month, the beauty of which is the child of blasting, and its glory the flush of decay. And it seems somehow fitting that Addison, the mild, the quietly-joyous, the sanguine and serene, should come, with the daisy and the sweet summer-tide, on the 1st of May, which Buchanan thus hails—
"Salve fugacis gloria saeculi,
Salve secunda digna dies nota,
Salve vetustae vitae imago,
Et specimen venientis aevi."
"Hail, glory of the fleeting year!
Hail, day, the fairest, happiest here!
Image of time for ever by,
Pledge of a bright eternity."
Dr. Lancelot Addison, himself a man of no mean note, was the father of our poet. He was born in 1632, at Maltesmeaburn, in the parish of Corby Ravensworth, (what a name of ill-omen within ill-omen, or as Dr. Johnson would say, "inspissated gloom"!) in the county of Westmoreland. His father was a minister of the gospel; but in such humble circumstances,