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    and ravishing hgatura : something , at which De Seuil ,

    « Sigh'd * and look'd , apd sigh'd again . "

    aii 4 Owned that there was nothing between it and an angel ' s wing . Meantime , nothing comes amiss to us hut dirt , or tatters , or cold , plain ,

    calf , ichool binding , a thing which we hate for its insipidity and formality , and its manifest attempt to do the business as cheaply and usefully as possible , With no regard to the liberality and picturesqueness befitting the cultivators of the generous infant mind .

    Keep from our sight all Select as e Profanis , and Enfields ' Speakers , bound in this Manner ; and especially all Ovids , and all Excerpta from the Greek . We would as lief

    see Ovid come to life as a quaker , or Theocritus serving in a st&tioner * s shop . ( See the horrid , impossible dreams , which such incoherences excite !) Arithmetical books are not so bad ; and it does very

    Well for the Gauger ' s Vade Mecum , or tall thin copies of Logarithms ; but for anything poetical , or of a handsome universality like the grass or the skies , we would as soon see a flower whitewashed , or

    an arbour fit for $ n $ ngel changed into a pew . Bt ) t to come to the bdojc before tis , See what an advantage tti& poor reader of modern times possesses over the royal collector of those ages , who doubtless got his manuscript

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    W Grollier himself * should have— ;

    of Heliodorus ' s romance at a cost and trouble proportionate to ' the splendout he bestowed on its binding . An argosie " brought it him from Greece or Italy , at a price rated by some Jew of Malta : or else his

    father got it with battle and murder out of some Greek ransom of a Turk ; Whereas we bought our copy at a bookstall in Little Chelsea for

    tenpence ! To be sure it is not in the original language ; nor did we ever read it in that language ; neither is the translation , for the most part , a good one ; and it is execrably

    printed . It is " done / ' half by a i € person of quality / 1 and half by Nahum Tate , the psalm-versifier ; who got a fit of momentary inspiration , when he wrote a bit of Absalom and

    Achitophel under the eye of Dry den . There are symptoms of its being translated frotn aji Italian version ; and perhaps the good bits come out of &p older English one , of which

    Warton speaks . But we Jiave not time to settle points Of this nature . We have stipulated with the reader for permission to take up any book , or part of a book , as it comes

    to our hands , and talk of it With him o ^ -hand , rather according to the enjoyment it has given tig , than to the knowledge we have of its history * And information on

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    286 Retrospective Review

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/61/