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JOSEPH ADDISON Efq

From an Original in the Collection of the late Leherfield.

Cook on.

Printed for Jn.Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London June 111778.

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BELL'S EDITION.

The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

ADDISON.

For ever confecrate the day
To mufic and Saint Cecilia

MAIL!

Wrmer del

Printed for John Bell ne ar Exeter Exchange Strand London A

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOSEPH ADDISON.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

No charms are wanting to thy artful fong,
Soft as Corelli, but as Virgil strong:

From words fo fweet new grace the notes receive,
And Mufic borrows helps fhe us'd to give.

Thy ftyle hath match'd what ancient Romans knew,
Thy flowing numbers far excel the new,
Their cadence in fuch eafy found convey'd,
That height of thought may feem fuperfluous aid;
Yet in fuch charms the noble thoughts abound,
That needlefs feem the fweets of eafy found.

Accept, great Monarch of the British lays!
The tribute-fong an humble fubject pays:
So tries the artlefs lark her early flight,
And foars to hail the god of Verse and Light.
Unrivall'd as thy merit be thy fame,
And thy own laurels fhade thy envy'd name.

TICKELL.

EDINBURG:

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