THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE. A SATIRICAL POEM IN FOUR DIALOGUES. WITH NOTES. PRICE 8s. 6d. IN BOARDS. THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE. A SATIRICAL POEM IN FOUR DIALOGUE WITH NOTES. Υμες, ω παντα εν πᾶσι φύσει και παιδεια χρηστοι, και μετριοι, επινεύσατε. Athenagora Atheniensis Legatio Imperatoribus Antonino ADVERTISEMENT.* THE Poem on the Pursuits of Literature being out of print, I have revised it with great care. I have indeed incurred some censure from the very attention which I have repeatedly given to it. Yet I am still of opinion that no man of candour and reflection could wish to see any mistakes continued without correction, or the various parts of it again presented to the publick, without improvements and additions to the poetry and notes, as circumstances arose to prompt, or to require them. This is all which I have done from time to time. Though words are irrevocable, yet the last corrections of any author should be considered as the sense which he wishes to express, or to enforce. Impertinence and falshood I have at all times despised and neglected. It will be seen *This Advertisement was first prefixed to the Seventh Edition of the P. of L. published in April 1798. Some few sentences have been inserted since that time. |