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With antient deeds our long-chill'd bosoms fire, Those deeds which mark'd ELIZA'S reign! Make _Britons_ Greeks again.--Then strike the lyre, And Pindar shall not sing in vain. ----II. _A journey into England_, originally written in Latin, _by Paul Hentzner_. In the year 1598. Printed 1757. Advertisement of 10 pages in a fine large beautiful type, printed on paper of great delicacy. The body of the work, which is printed in a smaller type, occupies 126 double pages; on account of the Latin and English being on the opposite pages, each page is marked with the same number. Only 220 copies of this curious and elegant work were printed.--III. _Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose. Pereunt et Imputantur._ MDCCLVIII. 8vo. Two pages of dedication "To the Honourable Major General HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY:" two pages of a table of contents, body of the work 219 pages. Printed with the small type: and only 200 copies struck off.--IV. _An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. By Charles Lord Whitworth._ Printed at S.H. MDCCLVIII, 8vo. Advertisement 24 pages, body of this work 158--with a page of errata, 700 copies printed. This is an interesting and elegantly printed little volume.--V. _A parallel, in the manner of Plutarch, between a most celebrated man of Florence, and one scarce ever heard of in England. By the Reverend Mr. Spence_, 1758, 8vo. This is the beautiful and curious little volume, of which mention has already been made at p. 86, ante. Seven hundred copies of it were printed; and from a copy, originally in the possession of the late Mr. John Mann, of Durham, I learnt that "the clear profits arising from the sale of it being about 300_l._, were applied for the benefit of Mr. Hill and his family." (Magliabechi was "the man of Florence;" and Hill "the one scarce ever heard of in England.") A copy of this edition, with MS. notes by Mr. Cole, was purchased by Mr. Waldron, at the sale of George Steevens's books, for 3_l._6_s._ It was reprinted by Dodsley: but the curious seek only the present edition.----VI. _Lucani Pharsalia_, MDCCLX, 4to. This is the most beautiful volume, in point of printing, which the Strawberry Hill press ever produced. A tolerably copious account of it will be found in my
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