GAIL HAMILTON-Country Living and Country Thinking. Preface. Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. h. HORACE.

A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it.

i.

SAM'L JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1773. Each change of many-colored life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. j. SAM'L JOHNSON-Prologue on the Opening of the Drury Lane Theatre. The chief glory of any people arises from its authours.

k. SAM'L JOHNSON-Preface to Dictionary. Authors' lives in general are not uniform -they are strangely checquered by vicissitudes; and even were the outward circumstances uniform, the inward struggles must still be various.

1. GEO. HENRY LEWES-The Spanish Drama. Ch. II.

S.

Most authors steal their works or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
e. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 618.
Our Author

Produc'd his Play, and begg'd the Knight's advice:

Made him observe the subject, and the plot, The manners, passions, unities, what not? f. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 274.

'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
9. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 1.
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite,
Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write:
In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,-
Like Lee, or Budgel, I will rhyme and print.
h. POPE-Second Book of Horace.
Satire I. Line 97.
Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb
thro',

He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew.
i. POPE-Prologue to Satire. Line 89.
Why did I write? what sin to me unknown
Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own?
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
J. POPE-Prologue to Satire. Line 125.

"Tis not how well an author says;
But 'tis how much, that gathers praise.
k. PRIOR-Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

7. ROGERS-Italy. A Character. I. 16.

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

a sun.

Capt. JOHN SMITH- Smith's General History. What thou hast done shows all is in thy power;

t.

And to write better, only must write more.
THOMAS SOUTHERNE-To Congreve.
On The Old Bachelor. Line 40.
In every author let us distinguish the man
from his works.

u.

VOLTAIRE A Philosophical Dictionary.
Poets.

So must the writer, whose production should
Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
WALLER-TO Mr. Killegrew.

v.

St. 4. Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought

Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught

Smiths, who before could only make
The spade, the ploughshare, and the rake,
Arts, in most cruel wise
Man's left t' epitomize.

aa.

COWLEY-In Commendation of the Time we live in, under the Reign of our gracious King, Charles II.