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OR

RETROSPECTIONS,

BIOGRAPHICAL, CRITICAL,
AND HISTORICAL.

BY

NATHAN DRAKE, M. D. H. A. L.

AUTHOR OF ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE, &C.

"How sweet in morning hours,

When vernal airs stir the fresh-blowing flowers,
The light that shines reflected from the past!"

ROGERS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.

PUBLIC LEARNY

ASTOR, LONOX

TILDEN FOUNDATION

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

...

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

No.

XIII. Chaucer, Dunbar, and Burns compared

XIV. On the character of Ossian, as drawn by

the Irish bards, Miss Brooke's Reliques

of Irish poetry

XV. The Cliffords of Craven, continued

XVI. The same, continued

XVII. Biographical sketch of the Rev. Richard

Hole, with critical remarks on his Ar-

thur, a poetical romance

XVIII. The same, continued

XIX. The same, concluded

XX. The Cliffords of Craven, continued

XXI. The same, concluded

XXII.

Milton and Galileo-Their interview at

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37

65

101

132

157

197

237

282

Arcetri in Tuscany.-Vision of Galileo.

-Sonnet.-Collins's fragment, entitled

"The Bell of Arragon," completed

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