JOSEPH

OF

ADDISON,

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS

COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

EDITED,

WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTE 8

BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE.

"No whiter page than Addison remains,

He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,

And sets the passions on the side of truth;

Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,

And pours each human virtue thro' the heart.”—POPE

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,

by GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for me soutneru District of New-York.

505, 481

To Chamberlain Dashwood, Esq.,

To Mr. Stepney, 482, 483, 496, 497, 498, 500, 501, 502, 504,

DIALOGUES

UPON THE USEFULNESS OF

ANCIENT MEDALS

ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE LATIN AND GREEK POETSB,

Quoniam hæc ratio plerumque videtur

Tristior esse, quibus non est tractata, retroque
Volgus abhorret ab hac: volui tibi suaviloquenti
Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram,

Et quasi musæo dulci contingere melle,

Si tibi forte animum tali ratione tenerem.

LUCRETIUS,