Dear Sir If you at hisure I will desire you to enquire 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 & Beginning of the Book, where the Joe. compares Achilles's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son a to a Bird searching after a fit place for a test. If you find it send it. med or bring it your self and us you acquit yourself of This you may perhaps be troubled with more Pretical Commissions from a My Hearty/ Service to > Swift, The next time you come bring. Couch Eatly off we may take & May. 30. your most Faithful stumble Servant I. Addwon. OF JOSEPH ADDISON, INCLUDING THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS 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 seta the passions on the side of truth; And pours each haman virtue thro' the heart."-POP IN 8IX VOLUMES. VOL. V. New York: G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 321 BROADWAY. |