POETICAL WORKS

JOSEPH ADDISON.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

No charms are wanting to thy artful song,

Soft as Corelli, but as Virgil Arong:

From words fo fweet new grace the notes receive,

And Muûck borrows helps the us'd to give.

Thy tyle hath match'd what ancient Romans knew,
Thy flowing numbers far excell the new,
Their cadence in fuch eafy found convey 'd,

That height of thought may feem fuperfluous aid;
Yet in fuck charms the noble thoughts abound,
That needlefs feem the sweets of eafy found.
Accept, great Monarch of the British lays!
The tribute-fong aa humble subject paya:
So tries the artlefs lark her early flight,
And foars to hail the god of Verc and Light.
Uarivali'd as thy merit be thy fame,"
And thy own laurels thade thy cave nare.

TICKELL.

Bell's fecond edition.

EDINBURG:

AT Tux Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.
ANNO 1784.

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOSEPH ADDISON.

CONTAINING HIS

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS,

c. Sc. c.

If bus nefs calls, or crowded courts invite,

Th' unblemish'd Gatesman seems to frike my fight;
If in the stage 1 feck to footh my care,

I meet his foul, which breathes in Cato there;
If, penfive, to the rural fhades I rove,

His fhape o'ertakes me in the lonely grove:
'Twas there of just and good he reafon'd strong,
Clear some great truth, or rais'd me ferious fong;
There, patient, thow'd us the wife goufe to steer,
A candid cenfor, and a friend fevere;
There taught us how to live, and (oh) toq high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die!

TICKELL

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

429-32JOSEPH ADDISON.

Tuis elegant writer, towhom theworld owesfo many obligations, was born at Milfton, near Ambrosbury, in the county of Wilts, (of which place his father, Mr. Lancelot Addison, was then Rector) on the 6th of May 1674, and being not thought likely to live, was baptized on the fame day, as appears from the church regifter. When he grew up to an age fit for going to fchool, he was put under the care of the Rev. Mr. Naish at Ambrosbury. He afterwards removed to a school at Salisbury, taught by the Rev. Mr. Taylor, thence to the Charter-house, where he was under the tuition of the learned Dr. Ellis, and where he contracted an intimacy with Mr. Steele, afterwards Sir Richard, which continued as long as Mr. Addison lived. He was not above fifteen years old when he was entered of Queen's College, Oxford, in which his father had been placed, where he applied himself fo closely to the fludy of claffical learning, that in a very fhort time he became master of a very elegant Latin ftyle, even before he arrived at that age when ordinary fcholars begin to write good English.

In the year 1687 a copy of his vertes in that tongue fell into the hands of Dr. Lancafler, Dean of Magdalen College, who was so pleased with them that he immediately procured their Author's election into