584 Reirofpee of Domeffic Literature—Geography, Topography, &c. 
brew and Perfian; the court-dialects 
of the Mahometan and Chriftian dy- 
nafties of Spain, Arabic and Spanih ; 
Portuguefe and Italian, German and 
French, to fay nothing of thofe ichool- 
boy idioms, Greek and Latin, are to 
him no more difficile, 
Thanh to a black-bird ’tis to whiftle, 
and he tranfcribes not merely with 
pedantry, but with felection: he is, 
however, lefs attentive to pertinence 
and to Greek, than the author of the 
Purfuits of Literature. 
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complifhments of mind for any one to 
attain the excellence requifite—how 
many muft attain the excellence for 
any one to determine on incurring the 
hazards of publication!—and fhall the - 
fair adventrefs have occafion to ex- 
claim— 
————-forgive my erring quill; 
A woman pleads, O Criticifm be ftill; ‘ 
Wor pluck the bandage from thy falcon’s eye, 
Where but a timid neftling learns to fly. 
Let her fight proceed; fhe has already 
produced paflages, which Harmony 
may love to repeat, and Tendernefs to 
hear: but . 
¢¢ E’en copious Dryden wanted or forgot 
The laft and greateft art—the art to blot.” 
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‘aos. 6d." - 
This is a very lively and a very ori- 
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eirawn; yet the enifodes and under- 
characters are more heeded than the 
main bufinefs and the heroes ; and the 
roguifhnefs of the author borders often 
on ob{cenity. There is a difplay of 
jearning in the form of pedantry, quite 
to the purpofe in Mrs. Pawlet; but 
fometimes improbable in other per- 
Zonages. . 
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_ The pleafares of melancholy are 
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ceptibiljty, to thofe who have a jym. 
pathetic tafte for diftrefs; and from 
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enough to affeét the heart of the moft 
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illufion of the narrative, in recolleé&- 
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in rufhing, like the remorfeful, to in- 
credulity for relief, The tendency of 
this novel is not merely harmlefs—it 1s 
mora]. Some poems are appended. 
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Each of thefe three volumes contains 
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tales are entertaining and interefting, 
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This performance ought rather to 
have been entitled «* The Three Leti- 
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moirs of no lefs than three heroines of 
that name. The authorefs poffeffes con- 
fiderable merit as an obferver of human 
life and manners; her difcriminations 
are juit and accurate, and there is a 
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the attention while it fhows a vigour of 
imagination, 
‘© A Marvellous Pleafant Love-ftorys 
‘yan - 
The flang of polifhed life is carica- 
tured with genteel] humour in this mar- 
vellous pleafant love-ftory, which, 
though a little digreffional, is more 
than a little entertaining. 
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Prince Biribinker, fays the fairy- 
tale, pittled orange-flower-water, and 
let otr of rofes.. A fimilar ambition to 
make every thing delightful charac- 
terizes the fyftem of inftruction of the 
Abbé Gaultier. Sometimes grammar 
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by the prifmatic colours: fometimes it 
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fubftance is to be won with a fubitan- 
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nes and acquirement the accident, of 
ife. 
GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANT! 
QUITIES, VOYAGES, ‘TRAVELS 
LANGUAGES, &c. 
*“Barrow’'s Travels jn Southern 
Africa, 30s, 
oF 
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