"In the perfonal conduct of my Hero and Heroine, there is one circumstance which was intended to startle the reader from the trance of ordinary life. It was my object to break through the crust of those outworn opinions on which established inftitutions depend. I have appealed therefore to the most univerfal of all feelings, and have endeavoured to strengthen the moral sense, by forbidding it to waste its energies in feeking to avoid actions which are only crimes of convention." It is because there is so great a multitude of artificial vices, that there are fo few real virtues. Those feelings alone which are benevolent or malevolent, are effentially good or bad. The circumftance of which I fpeak, was introduced, however, merely to accuftom men to that charity and toleration which the exhibition of a practice widely differing from their own, has a tendency to promote.* Nothing indeed can be more mischievous, than many actions innocent in themselves, which might bring down upon individuals the bigoted contempt and rage of the multitude," The article in the Quarterly of which I have fpoken may be found in the number for April, 1819. Both titles of the poem ftand at the head of the paper, which is a rare fpecimen of evangelical pity and hatred; the only allufion in it to Laon and Cythna's being originally brother and fifter, is toward the clofe, where the poet is faid to recommend inceft an enigmatical c circumftance to the readers of The Revolt of Ilam. Shelley thought Southey the author of the article, but he was mistaken it was written by the Rev. H. H. Milman, a voluminous rhymefter, called by courtesy a poet. Ollier, the publisher, was a friend of "The fentiments connected with and characteristic of this circumstance, have no perfonal reference to the Writer." Tenants. Leigh Hunt's, who recommended him to "Homadge of fubic&tes. To 1 di dadas no Bud Barzh| Dutyes of Iudges. ol bin i 250g Obedience of the inferi Tours of THESE rites men owe to thee O God, Reuerence, honor, glory, prayfe, and prayer from the heart. The gratious Prince a father is, Parents. Obedience of Office of All Tennants flaues, and bondmen were, of. youre records do fhew, Though now not fo, yet to their Lords, they Zeale and fealtie owe. The neighborhood of the neighbor good, this neighbor doth claime Good ftill for good, in cafuall harme, a charitable blame. The Wife man sayeth the child is that for your youth did care. Dutie of Ser- lawe their feruant lewde might uants. VVarning Men. The fubiect true vnto his Prince, Vertues in a this homage heere doth owe, Muft Ariftotles blames forfake,' Rules for the Π Thi inferiour fort muftreurence Item for the worse giue, vnto the higher power, bay, and listen to their lore, 75 "let fortune laugh, or lowre. anti nodding any of As I began, fo I conclude, let all men feare the Lord, THE LIFE, DEATH, AND LITERARY RE- Nobody's children-in fact, and perhaps in law, Nullius fili. His work was pofthumous, of course. has heard from his infancy was never No publisher would admit that he was work accredited to Nobody, Nobody's friend, and publifhed Nobody's works; and, on the other hand, as the char acter of the work reflects no credit on the author, it may have been publifhed by No-.. body's enemy. Nobody, being dead, could throw no light on this fubject; and is there anybody now able to give more definite information? of a literary kind, his place in that depart- 01 Gens de Nobody (C***), a young poet, born: in the environs of Beauvais in 1766; he is only known as the author of a piece of erotic verfe, entitled La Meffe de Gnide, Paris, year of the Republic (1793), in 24mo, of 35 pages. He killed himself with a piftol-fhot, in 1787, at Paris." 2 1 Those who sneer at the painful labors of the bibliographer, because they refcue from a merited oblivion the uffelefs works of infignificant authors, may certainly believe the mania to have reached its climax when مالد feeks to record all that can be learned of the erotic poem of Nobody. But the geni uine bibliographer finds his reward in the. labor itfelf, and draws his own moral from the ftory. If Nobody is an entity, what are we all? And certainly the most neg-l lected young poet of the day may cherish fresh hopes of fame, from the career of our hero; for it is an obvious reflection, that' anybody may hope for a partial immortal1ity where a Nobody has not entirely failed : From this accurate though fomewhat and while time tends to deftroy the works meagre hiftory, Nobody appears to have and words of the wifeft, and bury every died on attaining manhood, an age when, body in a common opivion, fome future Bifor moft readers, the belief in his exiftence ographie Univerfelle may place our young has long ago departed. The works com- poet with the other Nobodies, all in their monly attributed to Nobody are fuch as proper alphabetical pofition, where their no other body is willing to avow, and this chance for an immortality coeval with the opinion feems to be as just as it is general; Dictionnaire will be as good as that of anyfor when he announces himself, his only body else. 1 "As they that are wife, doe not forthwith drinke of every fountaine, becaufe fome bring health, fome bring a feemely countenance, and others bring destruction; fo it is not safe to read every booke, becaufe as out of fome thou maift fucke a good dispofition of minde, fo out of others, luft: out of others ambition is drawn." "As that worke is most laudable wherein the arte commendeth the matter, the matter commendeth the arte; fo that is the best booke, wherein the profitableneffe of the argument commendeth the eloquence, and the eloquence of the author commendeth the argument." "As gold is tryed by the touch, fo good bookes by their worth.” "As in fweete oyles, ointment and wines; fo in bookes, antiquity doth adde estimation and price." "Bees abftaine from withered flowers; fo we should abstaine from corrupt, vicious, and obfcene bookes." "As in meates we doe not onely looke for pleasantneffe, but for wholesomeness; so in hearing and reading of authors." "As we see ourselves in other men's eyes; fo in other men's writings wee may fee what becometh us, and what becometh us not.' "As a field too much dunged becometh parched, but if it have no compoft, it waxeth barren; fo by moderate reading the wit groweth and is brought to good liking, for the mind is no leffe fatted by reading, than the ground by manuring." "As meate eaten greedily, hath neither profit nor pleasure; fo authors read over too hastily.” "As little bees from every place bring home that which is profitable; so a student doth except from every author that which suits his purpose.' "Bees out of divers flowers draw divers juices, but they temper and digeft them by their own vertue, otherwise they would make no hony; fo all authors are to be turned over, and what thou readeft is to be transposed to thine own use." "One tall tree is not wondered at where the whole wood mounteth aloft; fo one fentence is not marked, where all the whole booke is full of wisdom." "Out of herbs and plants the best things are to bee extracted; fo the best fayings are to be gathered out of authors." NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF JOHN ROGERS, THE MARTYR. In a rare work by Thomas Mall, one of the ejected ministers, entitled, The Hiftory of the Martyrs epitomized, A Cloud of Witnefes, or the Sufferers Mirrour, etc. (vol. i. p, 127, Boston edition, 1747), I find the following remark in relation to the number of the children of John Rogers, the martyr: "His Wife and Children being eleven in number (ten that could go and one Sucking at the Breaft) met him by the Way; but this Sight, grevious indeed to Flesh and Blood, could nothing E. K., JR., Bofton, move him." Meffrs. PHILES & Co. have ready for the prefs, and are now taking subscriptions for, a reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie Devifes. The text of this edition is taken from the reprint of 1810, edited by Sir Edgerton Brydges. The biographical notes have been prepared expreffly for this edition, ufing Brydges as a bafis, but incorporating much information that has been brought to light fince his edition was issued. This edition will be printed in small quarto, in the beft ftyle of art, upon India paper, and is limited to 500 copies, as follows: 400 on small paper, at $2.00 each. At these prices, copies will be furnished to subscribers only; and as soon as they are fupplied, the prices will be raised to $2.50 for the fmall-paper copies, and $5.00 for Meffrs. Philes & the large-paper copies. Co. propofe to make this reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie Devifes the first volume of a series of reprints of fcarce collections of old English poetry. The next volume in the feries will be "ENGLAND'S HELICON.' Index. ACADEMIE des Femmes fans Sexe, page 70. Account of the Life of Richard De Bury, Bishop of Durham, 256, 269. Address of Citizens of New York to General Washington, 142.. Adverfaria, 63, 83, 106, 131, 231. Aldine Symbol of the Anchor and Dolphin, explained, 230. [207 Allan (John), the Patriarch of Book-Collectors, Alliterative Poetry, 20. Alphabet of the Wickedness and Imperfection of Women (S. Olivier), 262. An Ancient Manufcript, 210. "Analyse des Travaux de la Société des Philobib lon de Londres," 272. André (Major) and Vofs the Poet, 134. Antifthenes' Advice to the Athenians, 132. "Biographia Britannica," Names of Writers in, 43. Blount (Patty), 147. Blunders in "Bohn's Dictionary of Claffical Quotations," 67. (Boileau, Abbé), "De L'Abvs des Nvditez des Gorge," 207. Bonaventura (St.), Hymn in Praise of the Cross, 261.. Book-Collectors and Booksellers, Neglected Biography of, 136, 157, 253. "Book (The) Hunter" (John Hill Burton), Notice of, 158. Books, Curious Titles of, 173. "An Ynkehorne Letter," 189. "Ariftotle's Ethics" read on Sunday instead of the Gospel, 249, 250. and Libraries in the Middle Ages, 197, 221. the Restoration of Old, 227. the best Friends, 213. praifed by Richard De Bury, 201. the Transcription of, in the Middle Ages, 222. praised by Lucas De Penna, 262. Autograph Letters, from the Portfolio of a Book- Booth's Reprint of Shakspeare, 114. worm, 169, 193, 217. Bacon (Lord), his "eternal Love of Truth," 189. Barlow (Joel), "Hymn to the Guillotine," 141. "Bay Pfalm. Book," reprinted by C. B. Richardfon, 187. Bayle's (P.) Dictionary, 5. Sonnet on Bayle, 32. Beard's (Thomas)" Theatre of God's Judgments,' 213. Begum (the), 25. Bott (Rev. Thomas), 231. Brackenridge (Judge), Anecdote of, 64.' Burney's (Mifs F.) "Evelina," 46. Calmet (Dom Auguftin), "Differtation fur la 61. Belloc (P. V.), "La Vierge au Poiffon de Ra- Chrift, Personal Beauty of, 135. Bembo (Cardinal) on Style, 132. 1 Beverland (Hadrian), a curious Collector of Facetiæ, 132. Clarke (Dr. Samuel), Anecdote of, 231. "Clef (La) du Paradis," etc., Notice of, 238. Clifford (Matthew), Character of, 63. Clopton (John B.), Sale of his Library), 43. Cocker (E.), "his Rare Arithmetick," 115. Coleridge (S. T.), Notes on Colquhoun, 65. "Comical Hiftory of the States and Empires of the Sun," quoted, 45. "Complot d'Arnold" (par Barbé-Marbois), 166. Bibliographical Notice of Works on the Perfonal Condy (J. W.), Letter to Rev. Jackson Kemper, Beauty of Christ, 135. 142. |