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For FEBRUARY, 1810.

Μητρός τε καὶ πατρὸς, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων προγόνων ἁπάντων, τιμιώτερόν ἐπι πατρίς, καὶ σεμνότερον, καὶ ἁγιώτερον.

PLATO IN CRITONE:

OUR COUNTRY is more honourable, more venerable, more holy a relation, than that of Father, Mother, or all out Ancestors together.

ART. I. The Works of John Dryden now firft collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, hiftorical, critical, and explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Efq. is vols. octavo, 91. 93. Miller. 1808.

IT

T is matter, rather of reproach than of surprise, that, duting the last century, no ferious effort fhould have been made to confolidate the fame of Dryden, by collecting all his works. At the time of his death, he was, through the exercife of his poetic powers, the object of hatred and env to many; and of the few who loved, and even the numbers who admired him, nope felt fufficiently in.erefted in the prefervation of his laurels, to renew the triumphs occafioned by Dryden's victories over political, or poetical adverfaries; at the expence of encountering the malevolence to which the de

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