THE

LITERATURE

AND

THE LITERARY MEN

OF

Great Britain and Irelanù.

BY

ABRAHAM MILLS, A.M.,

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES, ETC. ETC. ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME THE FIRST.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

HARYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

SHELDON FUND
JULY 10, 1940

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
JAN 9 1969

TO

HON. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN,

LATE

Chaurellor of the Juiurrsity

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

NOW

PRESIDENT OF RUTGER’S COLLEGE,

NEW JERSEY,

THESE VOLUMES

ARE, AS A MARK OF GREAT RESPECT,

INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.