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15. John Oldmixon, Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley (1712), and Arthur Mainwaring, The British Academy (1712).
16. Henry Nevil Payne, The Fatal Jealousie (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709).
18. Anonymous, “Of Genius,” in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to The Creation (1720).
19. Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body (1709).
20. Lewis Theobald, Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734).
22. Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), and two Rambler papers (1750).
23. John Dryden, His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).
26. Charles Macklin, The Man of the World (1792).
31. Thomas Gray, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard (1751), and The Eton College Manuscript.
41. Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732).
77-78. David Hartley, Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas (1746).
79. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, Poems (1660).
81. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters: The Graces (1774), and The Fine Gentleman’s Etiquette (1776).
85-86. Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth Century Periodicals.
93. John Norris, Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call’d, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).
94. An. Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653).
96. Ballads and Songs Loyal to the Hanoverian Succession (1703-1761).
97. Myles Davies, [Selections from] Athenæ Britannicaæ (1716-1719).
98. Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert’s Temple (1697).
99. Thomas Augustine Arne, Artaxerxes (1761).
100. Simon Patrick, A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men (1662).
101-102. Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762).
103. Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript.
104. Thomas D’Urfey, Wonders in the Sun: or, The Kingdom of the Birds (1706).
105. Bernard Mandeville, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725).
106. Daniel Defoe, A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees (1709).
107-108. John Oldmixon, An Essay on Criticism (1728).
109. Sir William Temple, An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government (1680).
110. John Tutchin, Selected Poems (1685-1700).
111. Anonymous, Political Justice (1736).
112. Robert Dodsley, An Essay on Fable (1764).
113. T. R., An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning (1698).
114. Two Poems Against Pope: Leonard Welsted, One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope (1730), and Anonymous, The Blatant Beast (1742).
115. Daniel Defoe and others, Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal.
116. Charles Macklin, The Covent Garden Theatre (1752).
117. Sir Roger L’Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin (1680).
118. Henry More, Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1662).
119. Thomas Traherne, Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation (1717).
120. Bernard Mandeville, Aesop Dress’d or a Collection of Fables (1704).
General Editors: George Robert Guffey, University of California,
Los Angeles; Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles;
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles; Robert
Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C. Davis, William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library
The Society’s purpose is to publish reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing.
Correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron St., Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. Manuscripts of introductions should conform to the recommendations of the MLA Style Sheet. The membership fee is $5.00 a year for subscribers in the United States and Canada and 30/- for subscribers in Great Britain and Europe. British and European subscribers should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. Copies of back issues in print may be obtained from the Corresponding Secretary.
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Henry Headley, Poems (1786). Introduction by Patricia Meyer Spacks. James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760). Introduction by John J. Dunn. e-text 8161 Edmond Malone, Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782). Introduction by James M. Kuist. Present Text |
Anonymous, The Female Wits (1704). Introduction by Lucyle Hook. In Preparation Anonymous, The Scribleriad (1742). Lord Hervey, The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue (1742). Introduction by A. J. Sambrook. In Preparation Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O. (1682). Introduction by Richard Morton. |
The Society announces a series of special publications beginning with a reprint of John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner. Ogilby’s book is commonly thought one of the finest examples of seventeenth-century bookmaking and is illustrated with eighty-one plates. The next in this series will be John Gay’s Fables (1728), with an Introduction by Vinton A. Dearing. Publication is assisted by funds from the Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Price to members of the Society, $2.50 for the first copy and $3.25 for additional copies. Price to non-members, $4.00.
Seven back numbers of Augustan Reprints which have been listed as out-of-print now are available in limited supply: 15, 19, 41, 77-78, 79, 81. Price per copy, $0.90 each; $1.80 for the double-issue 77-78.
1. “And tears began to flow;”
This line has been reformatted to match the rest of the text. Page as printed, with Dryden verse included to show normal arrangement of quoted poetry:
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