subject is, that we have the best grounds for concluding the progress of
the arts originally, and the great perfection to which they were carried
in Greece, to have arisen from natural and moral causes of confessed
efficacy, and not from any casual circumstances, extraneous to and
independent of man: and we deem it reasonable to think that the same
causes, operating as uncontroledly any where else within the extent of
the temperate climates, would most probably again produce the same
effects. Far from indulging any licence of imagination, or from giving
wing to its flights, it has been endeavoured rather carefully to detail
facts than wantonly to invent systems. Of the evidence, which to us has
appeared convincing, the public will judge: of the rectitude of our
intention in producing it we are sure, for it is only to incite public
reward, to encourage study, and labour, and industry.
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Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually
facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century
works. The editorial policy of the Society remains unchanged. As in the
past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All
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Publications for the eighth year [1953-1954]
(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be
reprinted.)
JOHN BAILLIE: _An Essay on the Sublime_ (1747). Introduction by
Samuel H. Monk.
Contemporaries of the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_. Introduction by
Richmond P. Bond.
_John Dart and George Ogle on Chaucer._ Introduction by William L.
Alderson.
JOHN T. DESAGULIERS: _The Newtonian System of the World the Best
Model of Government_ (1728). Introduction by Marjorie H. Nicolson.
_Sale Catalogue of Mrs. Piozzi's Effects_ (1816). Introduction by
John Butt.
M. C. SARBIEWSKI: _The Odes of Casimire_ (1646). Introduction by
Maren-Sofie Roestvig.
_Selections from Seventeenth-Century Songs._ Introduction by
Jennifer W. Angel.
_A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul_ (1745).
[Probably by Samuel Johnson]. Introduction by James L. Clifford.
Publications for the first seven years (with the exception of Nos. 1-6,
which are out of print) are available at the rate of $3.00 a year.
Prices for individual numbers may be obtained by writing to the Society.
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
FIRST YEAR (1946-1947)
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)
7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on
Wit from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702).
8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684).
9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).
10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
etc._ (1744).
11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717).
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph
Wood Krutch.
THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720).
14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753).
15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712).
16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William
Shakespeare_ (1709).
18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10
(1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).
FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709).
20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and
Pamela_ (1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two
_Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which
from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and
Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham.
FIFTH YEAR (1950-1951)
25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709).
26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792).
27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of
Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785).
28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and _A
Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661).
29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718).
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_
(1770).
SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)
31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751);
and _The Eton College Manuscript_.
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to _Ibrahim_
(1674), etc.
33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings
(1725).
34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1785).
35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David
Malloch_ (1763).
36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696).
SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953)
37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767).
38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).
39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.
40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
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Transcriber's note:
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained
except in obvious cases of typographical error:
"... joined increased (conveniencies->) conveniences"
"... which nothing imperfect (eould->) would please,"
Footnotes interrupting paragraphs have been moved to the end of
the respective paragraphs.