OF

JOSEPH ADDISON,

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS

AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS

COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON IIIS 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 sets the passions on the side of truth;
Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,
And pours each human virtue thro' the heart."-Pope.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUT NAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.

1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,

By GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO.,
in the Clerk's Oflice of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

District of New York,

JOHN F. TROW,
PRINTER & STEREOTYPER, 49 Ann Street.