THE

CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED:

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS;

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

GROUNDED ON

ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTICK DOCUMENTS ;

AND

A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS,

THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORE

BEEN PUBLISHED.

By EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOL. I. PART II.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET,

FOR T. CADELL, JUN, AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

M.DCCC.

THE CONTENTS.

Page

VOL. I. PART I.

ADVERTISEMENT ...

.....1-XX

Life of DRYDEN

...., 1

APPENDIX to the Life ................. 551

Numb. I. Dryden's Patent .............. 553

II. Contract concerning the Fables,&c. 560

III. Russel's Bill of Charges for his

Funeral .................. 562

IV. Epitaph in Tichmarsh Church, on

Dryden and his Ancestors ...... 564

V. List of Persons, in whose Cabinets

Letters written by Dryden pro-

bably may be found ........... 567

VOL. I. PART II.

Letters from Dryden to several Persons.

- LETTER

Page

I. T. Madam Honor. Dryden ...........

II. TO John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ...

III. To the Rev. Dr. Busby ............

IV. To the same ..................... 15

V. To Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester . 19

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LETTER

VI. To Jacob Tonson ...... ....... 21

VII. From Jacob Tonson to Dryden ...

VIII. To Jacob Tonson..............
IX. To Yohn Dennis ......

X. TO Jacob Tonson ....

XI. To the same . .........

XII. To the same ......

XIII. To the same : . .'

XIV. To the same ..;..

XV. To the same .iii.

XVI. To the same ....

XVII. To the same ....

XVIII. To the same ....

XIX. To the same .....

XX. To the same .................

XXI. To the Author's sons at Rome ..

XXII. To Jacob Tonson ..........

XXIII. To the same : .......

XXIV: To the same ........

XXV. To Mrs. Steward .......

XXVI. To Elmes Steward, Esq. ......

XXVII. To Mrs. Steward ........

XXVIII, To the same ..........

XXIX. To the same ....,

XXX. To the same ....

XXXI. To the same .....

XXXI. To the same ......

....

XXXIII: T. Sannuel Pepys, Esq. ..........

XXXIV: To Mrs. Steward ...... .... .86

XXXV. To the same : ...............

• LETTER

Page

XXXVI. To the Right Honourable Charles

Montague ............... 90

XXXVII. To Mrs. Steward .............

XXXVIII. T. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Jun. 96

XXXIX. To the same : ............... 99

XL. To Mrs. Steward ............ 101

XLI. To the same ................ 104

XLII. T. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Fun. 108

XLIII. To Mrs. Steward ............ 109

*. XLIV. To the same ............... 127

XLV. To the same

ADDITIONS and EMENDATIONS .......... 133

PROLEGOMENA.

Dedication of The Rival Ladies to

Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery ....... 3.

i Preface to Sir Robert Howard's Plays .. 15,

Dedication of the Essay of DRAMATICK

Poesy to Charles, Lord Buckhurst ...... 25

Essay OF DRAMATICK Poesy ......... 33

Defence of the Essay OF DRAMATICK Poesy 143

- Preface to The Mock AsTROLOGER ...... 187 ·

: Essay of HeROICK PLAYS ............. 207.

Defence of the Epilogue to the Second Part of

The CONQUEST OF GRANADA ......... 225 ·

The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy ...... 255 ·

Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Treatise on

the Tragedies of the last Age ........... 299

Preface to The Wild GALLANT ......... 315

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