OF ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE, OF SHAKSPEARE EVENINGS IN AUTUMN. Come, sweetest SUMMER! And o'er old Avon's magic edge, All playful yet, in years unripe, O Goddess, guide my pilgrim feet! IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. WARTON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND: ΤΟ THE LOVERS OF SHAKSPEARE, THESE VOLUMES, INCLUDING A NARRATIVE WHOSE PRIMARY OBJECT HAS BEEN TO UNFOLD ITS AUTHOR'S CONCEPTION OF THE MORAL AND DOMESTIC FEELINGS OF THE BARD OF AVON, ARE INSCRIBED, BY ONE, WHOSE ADMIRATION OF THE PRIVATE CHARACTER OF THE POET, FAINTLY AS IT HAS BEEN SHADOWED OUT BY TRADITION, IS SCARCELY TO BE EXCEEDED BY THAT WHICH HE ENTERTAINS FOR THE DEPTH AND UNIVERSALITY OF HIS GENIUS AND TALENTS. |