The Poetical Works of Addison
The Poetical Works of Addison
Gay's Fables and Somerville's Chase
With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations by the Rev. George Gilfillan
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ion of the same poem from Addison,
complimented him by saying--"After his bees, my later swarm is scarcely
worth hiving." He published, too, a poem on "King William," and an
"Account of the Principal English Poets," in which he ventures on a
character of Spenser ere he had read his works. It thus is, as might have
been expected, poor and non-appreciative, and speaks of Spenser as a poet
pretty nearly forgotten. Some time after this, he collected a volume,
entitled, "Musæ Anglicanæ," in which he inserted all his early Latin
verses.
Charles Montague, himself a poet of a certain small rank, and a man of great general talents, became--along with Somers--the patron of Addison. He diverted him from the Church, to which his own tastes seemed to destine him, suggesting that civil employment had become very corrupt through want of men of liberal education and good principles, and should be redeemed from this reproach, and declaring that, though he had been called an enemy of the Church, he would never do it any oth
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