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of his friend Sir A. Fountaine (Notes and Queries, 4th ser. xii. 357, 5th ser. v. 488, vi. 94; Joseph Addison and Sir A. Fountaine, the Romance of a Portrait, London, 1858).

Addison's Latin poems appeared in the ‘Examen Poeticum Duplex,’ London, 1698, and the ‘Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta,’ vol. ii., Oxford, 1699. The latter collection includes two poems, on the Peace and to Dr. Hannes, not in the former. A poem on Skating attributed to P. Frowde in the last was published as Addison's by Curll in 1720.

The third part of the ‘Miscellany Poems’ (1693) includes the poem ‘To Mr. Dryden;’ the fourth part (1694), the translation of the fourth Georgic, an ‘Account of the Greatest English Poets,’ the ‘Song for St. Cecilia's Day,’ a translation of Ovid's ‘Salmacis;’ the fifth part (1704) contains the letter from Italy (already published), the Milton imitated in a translation from the third Æneid, and various translations from Ovid. Macaulay mentions (see note to article ‘Macaulay’ in Manual) that ‘Spectator’ Nos. 603 and 623 should be given to Addison.

A translation of an oration ‘in defence of the new philosophy,’ made in the schools at Oxford (7 July 1693), attributed to Addison, is appended to a translation by W. Gardiner of Fontenelle's ‘Plurality of Worlds’ (London, 1728). A ‘Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning,’ published by Osborne in 1739, from a manuscript belonging to Somers and afterwards to Jekyl, is regarded by Hurd as a genuine, though early, piece, and is reprinted in Addison's works. A ‘Dissertatio de insignioribus Romanis Poetis’ was published in 1692, 1698, 1718, 1725, and 1750, and was regarded as valuable by Dr. Parr (Notes and Queries, 3rd series, ix. 312). An ‘Argument about the Alteration of the Triennial Election of Parliaments,’ attributed to Addison, was first published in Boyer's ‘Political State’ in 1716. It was afterwards claimed by De Foe (Notes and Queries, 1st series, v. 577), and, though admitted in Bohn's edition, is apparently not Addison's. Other publications are as follows:

1. ‘A Poem to His Majesty,’ presented by the Lord Keeper (Somers) 1695. 2. ‘Letter from Italy to the Right Hon. Charles Lord Halifax, in the year 1701.’ Printed 1703. 3. ‘Remarks on several Parts of Italy,’ 1705. Second edition, 1718. 4. ‘Fair Rosamond,’ an opera in three acts, and in verse (anonymous), 1707. 5. Papers in ‘The Tatler,’ 1709–10. 6. ‘The Whig Examiner,’ 1710. 7. Papers in ‘Spectator,’ 1711–12. (The papers on Milton, on the Imagination, and on Coverley have been published separately.) 8. ‘Cato,’ 1713. 9. Papers in ‘Guardian,’ 1713. 10. ‘The late Trial and Conviction of Count Tariff,’ 1713. 11. Papers in eighth volume of ‘Spectator,’ 1714. 12. ‘The Drummer’ (anonymous), 1716 (acted 1715). 13. ‘The Freeholder,’ 1716. 14. ‘The Old Whig,’ 1719. This (with the ‘Plebeian’) is included only in Greene's and Bohn's edition of his works. The ‘Dialogues on Medals’ and the ‘Evidences of the Christian Religion’ were published posthumously in Tickell's edition of his works.

Of collected editions we may mention Tickell's, in 4 vols., 1721; the Baskerville edition, in 4 vols. 4to, Birmingham, 1761; another collected edition, in 4 vols., London, 1765, often reprinted in 12mo; an edition (with grammatical notes) by Bishop Hurd, in 6 vols. 8vo, in 1811; a fuller edition, edited by G. W. Greene, New York, 1856; the most complete and convenient edition is that contained in Bohn's ‘British Classics,’ 6 vols. 1856.

[Tickell's Preface to Addison's Works; Steele's Preface to the Drummer, in an Epistle Dedicatory to Mr. Congreve, occasioned by Mr. Tickell's Preface; Spence's Anecdotes (1820); Egerton MSS. 1971–4; life in Biographia Britannica; life in Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Addisoniana, a loose collection of anecdotes by Sir R. Phillips (1803), which contains fac-similes of letters to Wortley Montagu, then first published; life by Lucy Aikin (1843), and the review of this, which is one of Macaulay's best essays; Nathan Drake's Essays illustrative of the Tatler, Guardian, and Spectator (1805); Prefaces to Chalmers's British Essayists, vols. i., vi., and xvi.; Tyers's Historical Essay (1783), which is valueless; Swift's Works; Pope's Correspondence in Elwin's edition; Carruthers's Life of Pope.]  ADDISON, LANCELOT, D.D. (1632–1703), dean of Lichfield, the father of Joseph Addison, was born in 1632 at Meaburn Town Head, manor of Mauldismeaburn and parish of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland. He was the son of a Rev. Lancelot Addison, and his ancestors were settled at Meaburn Town Head in 1564, if not earlier (Notes and Queries, 5th series, vii. 31). After receiving his early education at the grammar school of Appleby he was sent to Queen's College, Oxford, between which and the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland there had long been a close connection. According to the college books he was admitted on 24 Jan. 1650–1 as a ‘batteler.’ Among his college contemporaries (, Fasti, ed. Bliss, ii. 175) was Joseph Williamson, a Cumberland man, who rose to be a principal secretary of state under the Restoration, who befriended him in after life, and from whom, it has been surmised, Joseph Addison received his christian name.