ception. For me, whose life is principally spent in a deep solitude, which has given me an opportunity of yielding myself up to that intense love of books, which I have felt from my very boyhood, I doubt if I could exist without the balm of literature; without a perpetual renovation of that mental food, which wraps me for a time in o forgetfulness of sorrows and perplexities, such as it has been the lot of few to encounter! Sometimes indeed the delusion is dangerous; and only defers the evil, to enable it "to deal the mightier blow." But what years of grief and anxiety does it while away! What wounds does it heal! What hours of pure and exalted virtue does it give! The feast therefore that I seek from others, I am willing to attempt to prepare for them. By this reflection I feel repaid for much and repeated labour; for some weary and some inconvenient hours; for some occasional abridgment of my private pleasures, and sometimes perhaps a little sacrifice of my health. But my views at least are generous, if mistaken; and the private friendships which this work has procured me, are alone an ample recompence for all my toils. SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. Denton, 26 April, 1807. DIGESTED DIGESTED TABLE OF CONTENTS. POETRY. 6. Extracts from the Paradife of Daint, Devifes, 1576.... 7. Stany hurft's Tranflation of Virgil, 1583, 8vo... 8. Churchyard's Praife of Poetry, continued.. 9. T. Baftard's Chrefteleros, 1598, 12mo. 10. Skialetheia, 1598, 12m0...... 11. R. Chefter's Love's Martyr, 1601. 12. Tho. Scott's Foure Paradoxes, 1602.. 13. T. Sampfon's Fortune's Fashion, 1613, 4to.... 14. T. Freeman's Rub and a Great Caft, 1614, 4to. ........ .... 19. Sir T. Hawkins's Odes of Horace, 1635, 12mo.. 20. Alex. Roffe's Mel Heliconium, 1642, 8vo..... 22. Mufarum Delicia, by Sir J. Mennes and Dr. J. Smith, 1656, 12mo... 50. Caxton's Recuyell of the Hiftorye of Troye, 1471. 51. A. Cope's Hiftory of Annibal and Scipio, 1544, 4to... 52. J. Proctor's Hiftorie of Wyate's Rebellion, 1555, 12mo. 53. Philip de Commines's Hiftory, by Danett, 1674, fol.. 54. Anglorum Speculum, or, Worthies of England, 1684, 8vo.. 55. Mariana's Hiftory of Spain, by Stevens, 1699, fol... MISCELLANIES. 59. H. Stalbrydge's Epiftle Exhortatorye, 1544. .... ..... 66. Moulton's Mirrour, or, Glafs of Health, 12mo..... 67. R. Hyrde's Inftruction of a Chriften Woman, 4to. 68. Parker's Bible, 1568, fol... 69. Barker's Bible, 1613, fol...... 72. H. Clapham's Brief of the Bible's Hiftory, 1608, 16m0.. 73. Tofte's Blazon of Jealoufy, 1615, 4to... 74. Mayer's Treafury of Ecclefiaftical Expofitions, 1622. 75. R. Tifdale's Pax Vobis, 1623, 4to.. 76.† Howell's Dendrologia, 1645... ... 77. Paul's Churchyard, a fcarce pamphlet, 1659, 4to. 78. Bibliotheca Militum, a pamphlet, 1659, 4to.. 79. Two Centuries of Paul's Churchyard, 12mo.... 80. Palmer's Moral Effays, 1710. ... .... 86. Syftema Agriculture, by J. W. 1681.... 263 240 89. Bradley's IV. On the State beft adapted to Human Happiness 195 V. Literature the only permanent Vehicle of Fame 201 VI. Criticism on Scott's Lay. .VII. On the proper Objects of Biography. .VIII. On the Poems of Rowley and Offian. 103. Explanation of a Medal of M. Anthony and Cleopatra.... 104. Difquifition on the Origin of the Name of Mount Caucafus. N. B. Those with this mark † are in the Bibliographical Catalogue. |