Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 1 of 4: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
The third volume Of this edition may now, more properly than ever, be called Dryden's' Fables, as it contains fuch of the Tales of Chaucer as he has modernized; his tran?ations from Boccace, and fuch of the Metamorphofes as he tran?ated all difpofed in their refpeétive places. We were a good deal mortified to' find ourfelves obliged to run part of the latter into our fourth volume, otherwife our third would have 'i'welled beyond all fize; and this we had the triora reafon to lament, as it broke in upon the uniformity which we ?attered ourfelves we ihould have been able in this edition to pre ferve. At the fame time, for reafons of a fimi lar nature, we were under a neee?ity Of adding the tran?ations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, to the end Of the fecond volume.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
