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      The Shepherd and Philosopher

      Fable I.—The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveller

      Fable II.—The Spaniel and the Cameleon

      Fable III.—The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy

      Fable IV.—The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals

      Fable V.—The Wild Boar and the Ram

      Fable VI.—The Miser and Plutus

      Fable VII.—The Lion, the Fox, and the Geese

      Fable VIII.—The Lady and the Wasp

      Fable IX.—The Bull and the Mastiff

      Fable X.—The Elephant and the Bookseller

      Fable XI.—The Peacock, the Turkey, and the Goose

      Fable XII.—Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus

      Fable XIII.—The Tame Stag

      Fable XIV.—The Monkey who had seen the World

      Fable XV.—The Philosopher and the Pheasants

      Fable XVI.—The Pin and the Needle

      Fable XVII.—The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf

      Fable XVIII.—The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody

      Fable XIX.—The Lion and the Cub

      Fable XX.—The Old Hen and the Cock

      Fable XXI.—The Rat-catcher and Cats

      Fable XXII.—The Goat without a Beard

      Fable XXIII.—The Old Woman and her Cats

      Fable XXIV.—The Butterfly and the Snail

      Fable XXV.—The Scold and the Parrot

      Fable XXVI.—The Cur and the Mastiff

      Fable XXVII.—The Sick Man and the Angel

      Fable XXVIII.—The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud

      Fable XXIX.—The Fox at the point of Death

      Fable XXX.—The Setting-dog and the Partridge

      Fable XXXI.—The Universal Apparition

      Fable XXXII.—The Two Owls and the Sparrow

      Fable XXXIII.—The Courtier and Proteus

      Fable XXXIV.—The Mastiffs

      Fable XXXV.—The Barley-mow and the Dunghill

      Fable XXXVI.—Pythagoras and the Countryman

      Fable XXXVII.—The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

      Fable XXXVIII.—The Turkey and the Ant

      Fable XXXIX.—The Father and Jupiter

      Fable XL.—The Two Monkeys

      Fable XLI.—The Owl and the Farmer

      Fable XLII.-The Jugglers

      Fable XLIII.-The Council of Horses

      Fable XLIV.—The Hound and the Huntsman

      Fable XLV.—The Poet and the Rose

      Fable XLVI.—The Cur, the Horse, and the Shepherd's Dog

      Fable XLVII.—The Court of Death

      Fable XLVIII.—The Gardener and the Hog

      Fable XLIX.—The Man and the Flea

      Fable L.—The Hare and many Friends

      PART II.

      Fable I.—The Dog and the Fox

      Fable II.—The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds

      Fable III.—The Baboon and the Poultry

      Fable IV.—The Ant in Office

      Fable V.—The Bear in a Boat

      Fable VI.—The Squire and his Cur

      Fable VII.—The Countryman and Jupiter

      Fable VIII.—The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly

      Fable IX.—The Jackall, Leopard, and other Beasts

      Fable X.—The Degenerate Bees

      Fable XI.—The Pack-horse and the Carrier

      Fable XII.—Pan and Fortune

      Fable XIII.-Plutus, Cupid, and Time

      Fable XIV.—The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer

      Fable XV.—The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox

      Fable XVI.—The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-worm

      SONGS:—

      Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan

      A Ballad, from the What-d'ye-call-it

      SOMERVILLE'S CHASE.

      THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SOMERVILLE

      SOMERVILLE'S CHASE:—

      Book I.

      Book II.

      Book III.

      Book IV.

      LIFE OF JOSEPH ADDISON.

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      Joseph Addison, the Spectator, the true founder of our periodical literature, the finest, if not the greatest writer in the English language, was born at Milston, Wiltshire, on the 1st of May 1672. A fanciful mind might trace a correspondence between the particular months when celebrated men have been born and the peculiar complexion of their genius. Milton, the austere and awful, was born in the silent and gloomy month of December. Shakspeare, the most versatile of all writers, was born in April, that month of changeful skies, of sudden sunshine, and sudden showers. Burns and Byron, those stormy spirits, both appeared in the fierce January; and of the former, he himself says,

      "'Twas then a blast o' Januar-win'

       Blew welcome in on Robin."

      Scott, the broad sunny being, visited us in August, and in the same month the warm genius of Shelley came, as Hunt used to tell him, "from the planet Mercury" to our earth. Coleridge and Keats, with whose song a deep bar of sorrow was to mingle, like the music of falling leaves, or of winds wailing for the departure of summer, arrived in October—that month, the beauty of which is the child of blasting, and its glory the flush of decay. And it seems somehow fitting that Addison, the mild, the quietly-joyous, the sanguine and serene, should come, with the daisy and the sweet summer-tide, on the 1st of May, which Buchanan thus hails—

      "Salve fugacis gloria saeculi,

       Salve secunda digna dies nota,

       Salve vetustae vitae imago,

       Et specimen venientis aevi."

      "Hail, glory of the fleeting year!

       Hail, day, the fairest, happiest here!

       Image of time for ever by,

       Pledge of a bright eternity."

      Dr. Lancelot Addison, himself a man of no mean note, was the father of our poet. He was born in 1632, at Maltesmeaburn, in the parish of Corby Ravensworth, (what a name of ill-omen within ill-omen, or as Dr. Johnson would say, "inspissated gloom"!) in the county of Westmoreland. His father was a minister of the gospel; but in such humble circumstances,

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