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Excerpt from The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 17 of 18: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author
Dryden was induced to honour this work, so creditable to those who had undertaken it, with a Dedication, and Life of Plutarch. The Dedication is addressed to the great Duke of Ormond, whom Dryden had celebrated, 'in Absalom and Achitophel, under the name of Barzillai. The reader will find some account of that nobleman, in the note upon that passage, Vol. IX. P. 294. It is doing no injustice to the other great qua lities of Ormond, to say, that his generous and unwearied pro tection of Dryden will not be the soonest forgotten. The poet's feelings towards this noble family were expressed in the preface to the Fables, his last great work. The publication and translation of Plutarch's Lives was not completed until 1686, when the last volume appeared. The following remarkable advertisement was prefixed to the work; which, from internal evidence, Mr Malone ascribes to our author, although bearing the name, and written in the cha racter of Jacob Tonson, the publisher of the work. 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.
