seek his Merits to disclose,
Or draw his
Frailties from their dread Abode,
(There they alike in trembling Hope
repose)
The Bosom of his Father and his God._
FINIS.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
FIRST YEAR (1946-47)
Numbers 1-4 out of print.
5. Samuel Wesley's Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and
Essay on Heroic Poetry (1693).
6. Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage (1704)
and Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage (1704).
SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)
7. John Gay's The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit
from The English Theophrastus (1702).
8. Rapin's De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).
9. T. Hanmer's (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736).
10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
etc._ (1744).
11. Thomas Purney's Discourse on the Pastoral (1717).
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood
Krutch.
THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720).
14. Edward Moore's The Gamester (1753).
15. John Oldmixon's Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712);
and Arthur Mainwaring's The British Academy (1712).
16. Nevil Payne's Fatal Jealousy (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe's Some Account of the Life of Mr. William
Shakespeare (1709).
18. "Of Genius," in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and
Aaron Hill's Preface to The Creation (1720).
FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709).
20. Lewis Theobold's Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734).
21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela
(1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two
Rambler papers (1750).
23. John Dryden's His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which
from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and
Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J.V. Cunningham.
FIFTH YEAR (1950-51)
25. Thomas Baker's The Fine Lady's Airs (1709).
26. Charles Macklin's The Man of the World (1792).
27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste,
and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785).
28. John Evelyn's An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and _A
Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661).
29. Daniel Defoe's A Vindication of the Press (1718).
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's Miscellanies (1770).
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
R.C. BOYS
University of Michigan
E.N. HOOKER
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Publications for the sixth year [1951-1952],
(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be
reprinted.)
THOMAS GRAY: An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751).
Introduction by George Sherburn.
JAMES BOSWELL, ANDREW ERSKINE, and GEORGE
DEMPSTER: _Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira_
(1763). Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle.
An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding
(1751). Introduction by James A. Work.
HENRY GALLY: A Critical Essay on Characteristic Writing (1725).
Introduction by Alexander Chorney.
[JOHN PHILLIPS]: Satyr Against Hypocrits (1655). Introduction by
Leon Howard.
Prefaces to Fiction. Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin
Boyce.
THOMAS TYERS: A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson
([1785]). Introduction by Gerald Dennis Meyer.
Publications for the first five years (with the exception of NOS. 1-4,
which are out of print) are available at the rate of $3.00 a year. Prices
for individual numbers may be obtained by writing to the Society.
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