Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS: A SATIRE HINTS FROM HORACE: BEING AN ALLUSION IN ENGLISH ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, A SATIRE. "I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! SHAKSPEARE. "Such shameless bards we have; and yet 't is true, POPE. [The first edition of this satire, which then began with what is now the ninety-seventh line ("Time was, ere yet," etc.), appeared in March, 1809. A second, to which the author prefixed his name, followed in October of that year; and a third and fourth were called for during his first pilgrimage, in 1810 and 1811. On his return to England, a fifth edition was prepared for the press by himself, with considerable care, but suppressed, and, except one copy, destroyed, when on the eve of publication. The text is now printed from the copy that escaped; on casually meeting with which, in 1816, he reperused the whole, and wrote on the margin some annotations, which in this edition are distinguished by the insertion of their date, from those affixed to the prior editions. The first of these MS. notes of 1816 appears on the fly-leaf, and runs thus:- "The binding of this volume is considerably too valuable for the contents; and nothing but the consideration of its being the property of another, prevents me from consigning this miserable record of misplaced anger and indiscriminate acrimony to the flames."] VOL. II. 1 (1) |