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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