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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: friends of Propertius than that they may hare no relish for the beauties of Tibullus.?Yours, andc. T. B. Art. VII.?Stafford's Niobe. In the present age, when the passion for ancient English literature has become almost epidemic, and old books are as eagerly sought after as old coins, old statues, and old wine, it would be superfluous to apologize for introducing to the notice of your readers a treatise which has survived the ravages of two hundred years. The book to which I allude bears date 1611, on the title- page of the second edition, (the first I have never seen), and was published in London by Humphrey Lownes. 1 mention this cir- uimstance before 1 give the, author's name, because there aro many persons to whom the date and the printer are by far more interesting than the writer himself. Antony Stafford, the author, has divided his work into two parts, with a quaintness which was then pretty common, but of which the present times furnish no example, except in the works of the Methodist Hunting'ton, has entitled them as follows: ? 1st Part, Stafford's Niobe, or, His Age of Teares; 2nd Part, Stafford's Niobe dissolved into a Nilus, or] His Age drowned in her own Teares. Prefixed to this edition, besides the epistle dedicatory to Robert Earl of Salisbury, are two prefaces, one grave and religious, addressed to the reader, in generall, the other ludicrous and bantering, inscribed to the long-eared reader, that is, to some person who had abused his work, and whom, in turn, he abuses with the titles of Sirrah and Midas, and several others equally disrespectful. Of Antony Stafford I know nothing, except that in one place he styles himself by birth a gentleman, and another place he says, Had not elder nature made mee a younger brother, I should have thought mysel...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217367479 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021736747X |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $29.87 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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