Gbbot's thoughts of matrimony seen from this time to have fallen more or less to the background, and, in the words of the epitaph apon Babup Andrews' tomb in the Church of St. Savours in Southwark,

Caleb: migrazit ad sureclam calettem.

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FIELDING, HENRY. Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq: Felices ter & amplius Quos irrupta tenet Copula In Four Volumes. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] [Vol. III.] [Vol. IV.] London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand

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Title, Dedication to Ralph Allen, dated "Bow Street. Dec. 12. 1751," and Contents, pp. xii + 285 (pagination on 22 omitted). Vol. II. pp. viii + 262 and Advertisement of the Universal Register Office. Vol. III. pp. ix + 323 (pp. 39 and 107 unpaged). Vol. IV. pp. vii, verso blank + 296.

Although the title-page, by anticipation, bore the date 1752, the actual date of publication, as appears (says Mr. Austin Dobson in his "Fielding ") from the "General Advertiser," was December 19th, 1751. Millar paid £1,000 for the copyright.

In the opening chapter of Book II. the heroine is said to have had a terrible chaise accident whereby "her lovely nose was beat all to pieces." She continues, however, to be described as a lovely creature. The inconsistency of creating a Beauty without a Nose was exposed by the critics. To meet which, in all subsequent editions, Fielding inserted sentences in Vol. I., Bk. II., chap. i., p. 99, between "unmasked" and "I was unable." Vol. II., Bk. IV., chap. vii., p. 72, after “degree” and before "Mrs. Ellison." Vol. IV., Bk. XI., chap. i., pp. 114-115, after "preposterous," and before "Her neck." Original Calf.

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FITZGERALD, EDWARD. Euphranor. A dialogue on youth. London. William Pickering 1851. Fscp. 8vo.

Title + pp. 81.

As early as 1846 FitzGerald wrote to Prof. Cowell: "I have been doing some of the dialogue.' "It is not easy to keep good dialectic, and yet keep up the dejected sway of natural conversation."

In another letter of Feb. 27, 1851, he writes: "Pickering's foreman blundered in the Advertisements; quoting an extract about the use of the Book, when he should have quoted about its amusement, which is what the world is attracted by. . . . As it would be a real horror to me to be known as the writer I do not think I can have much personal ambition in its success."

Tennyson thought the description of the Boat race one of the most beautiful pieces of prose in the English language.

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse. London: Bernard Quaritch... 1859 4to.

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In 1860 Messrs. A. C. Swinburne and D. G. Rossetti discovered copies of this 1st edition being sold off at a penny a copy-having proved hopelessly unsaleable at the published price of a shilling. To-day, Mr. Clement Shorter in "The Bookman" (April, 1899), doubts if a copy can be bought for £10! (ah! tempora mutantur).

Original paper covers with Title repeated.

E. FitzGerald's copy with his bookplate inside cover. This bookplate, an Angel [Mrs. Brookfield] holding a shield saltire, was, as stated by FitzGerald, writing in 1878, "Done by

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epistle, and the morals of most of them are of the political kind, which makes them run into a greater length than those I have already published. I have already finished about fifteen or sixteen. Four or five more would make a volume of the same size as the first. Though this is a kind of writing that appears very easy, I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invented one fable and finished it, I despair of finding out another; but I have a moral or two more which I wish to write upon." Probably this wish was not realised, as Gay died on December 5th, 1732.

Pope, writing to Swift, February 16th, 1733, hoped the Duke of Queensberry would be allowed to deal with "some fables he (Gay) left finished." This volume, issued by the duke, contains but sixteen fables.

Only 50 copies were printed.

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GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Complete in one Volume. With the Life of the Author. Embellished with Vignettes & Tail-pieces, Designed, and Engraved on wood, by T. Bewick. [Vignette.] "And all the village train, [etc.] Des. Vil. p. 44. Hereford: Printed by D. Walker; and sold by J. Parsons, Bookseller, Paternoster Row, London, 1794. 8vo.

Pp. 95. There are five vignettes, and one head-piece.

Certain criticisms of Goldsmith that have come down to us are interesting. He once described a Johnsonian characteristic very neatly; for speaking of style he said to the Doctor : "You must confess, Doctor, that if you had to make little fish speak, you would make them talk like whales?" Sainte-Beuve quotes this remark in connection with La Rochefoucauld's dictum, "Ne nous servons point de paroles plus grandes que les choses," an idiosyncrasy often observable in the writings of our lexicographer.

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GRAY, THOMAS. An Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. The Third Edition, corrected. London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; And sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row. 1751. [Price Sixpence.] 4to. 83 x 10 in.

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He began it at Stoke Poges at the end of October, 1742, and finished it at the same place on the 12th January, 1750. Horace Walpole circulated the MS. On February 10th, 1751, Gray was asked to allow it to appear in the "Magazine of Magazines," but refused; the next day the poet requested Walpole to have it published in pamphlet form. It was issued by Dodsley on the 16th February, 1751, and was at once pirated by the "Magazine of Magazines," followed by the "London Magazine" on 1st March and the "Grand Magazine of Magazines" on 30th April, 1751. Three MSS. of the Elegy in Gray's autograph exist. One at Pembroke College, Cambridge, endorsed by Gray, "Publish'd in Febry 1751 by Dodsley and went thro' four Editions in two months and afterwards a fifth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th & 11th." One in the British Museum. The 3rd, which is an earlier draft than the preceding, is that given by Gray to his biographer, Mason, and bequeathed in October, 1898, by Sir William Fraser to Eton College.

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