EDWARD ARBER, Affociate, King's College, London, F.R.G.S., &c. LONDON: ALEX. MURRAY & SON, 30, QUEEN SQUARE, W.C. 1 Auguft, 1868. Ent. Sta. Hall.] ONE SHILLING, [All Rights referved. STANFORD LIBRA JOHN MILTON's public felf-dedication to the compofi- CRITICISM ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST [Note on the early iffues of The Spectator No. 262. Announcement of the Milton papers page I. A GENERAL IDEA OF THE GRACES AND IMPERFECTIONS No. 267. THE FABLE, perfect or imperfect according to the 273. THE CHARACTERS of Homer, Virgil, and Milton compared. Allegorical characters not proper to 279. THE SENTIMENTS must be both natural and fub- 291. Qualities of true and falfe Critics 297. THE DEFECTS. The Fable is unhappy, its hero unfuccessful, and it has too many digreffions. The Allegorical perfons in the Characters. The Sentiments fometimes degenerate into puns; have too frequent allufions to heathen fables as true; and very frequently difplay unneceffary oftentation ΙΟΙ IC9 117 136 145 CAREFULLY EDITED BY EDWARD ARBER. Associate, King's College, London, F:R G.S., &c. Ready. 1. JOHN MILTON. (1) A decree of Starre-Chamber, concerning Printing, made the eleventh day of July last past. London, 1637. (2) An Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the regulating of Printing, &c. London, 14 June, 1643. (3) AREOPAGITICA; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of Vnlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. London [24 November], 1644. Sixpence. HUGH LATIMER, Bp. of Worcester. SERMON ON THE PLOUGHERS. A notable Sermon of ye reuerende father Master Hughe Latimer, whiche he preached in ye Shrouds at paules churche in London, on the xviii daye of Januarye. The yere of oure Loorde MDXLviii. Sixpence. 3. STEPHEN GOSSON, Stud. Oxon. (1) THE SCHOOLE OF ABUSE. Conteining a pleasaunt invective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters, and such like Caterpillers of a Commonwealth; Setting up the Flagge of Defiance to their mischievous exercise, and ouerthrowing their Bulwarkes, by Prophane Writers, Naturall reason, and common experience. A discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow vertue. London [August ?] 1579. (2) AN APOLOGIE OF THE SCHOOLE OF ABUSE, against Poets, Pipers, and their Excusers. London, [December ?] 1579. Sixpence. 4. Sir PHILIP SIDNEY. AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE. Written by the right noble, vertuous, and learned Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight. London, 1595. Sixpence. |