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THE

WORKS OF ADDISON.

VOL. V.

THE SPECTATOR.

Dear Sir

It fou are at hisure I will desire you to enquite in any Bookseller's shop for a statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds. nest which if I am not mistaken is very finely) described It comes in I think by way of simile towards of Beginning of the Book, where the doct compares Achilles's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son in to a Bird searching after a fit place for a test. If you find it and it mes or bring it your self and as you acquit yourself of This you may perhaps be troubled with more Predical Commissions from My Hearty/ Service to Dr Swift,

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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 NOTES,

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."-POFE

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

NEW-YORK:

G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.

1854.

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