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was prefixed by Dr. Thomas Marshall, rector of Lincoln college, Oxford, and afterwards dean of Gloucester; with a dedication by Mr. Hyde. This edition being sent over to the East Indies, a second was published, in 1704, 4to. at Oxford, superintended by Mr. Thomas Bowrey.* As both these editions were printed in Roman type, Bowrey added a specimen of the Malay charac- ter, which he had obtained from Dr. Hyde.
1677. Poor Robin's Intelligence reviveil.
1 677. Lamentable and bloody Newt from St. Albant ; being an account of the late great rob- bery and barbarotu murder committed there by highwaymen. 4to.
1677. Strange Newt from the deep, with an account of a large prodigious whale. 4to. With a wood-cut.
1677. Strange and wonderful Newt from Bridewell of a converted whore. 4to.
1677. Nercsfrom Buckinghamshire, or a per- fect, relation how a young maid hath been for twelve years possest with the Devil. 4to.
1677. Horrid News from St. Martin's, being a relation of a girl not sixteen, poysoning her mother, a servant maid, and two gentlewomen, 4to.
1677. R. Sabbath^ds ben Joseph erected a printing-oflSce at Dyrenfurt, a small town of Silesia, of which Wolfius relates some anec- dotes respecting it. Several of the Dyrenfurt publications are found in the Oppenheimer ubrary, now at Oxford.
1677. Printing carried on at Dunkirk, a sea- port of French Flanders, by Jan Wins.
1677. A French and Italian Dictionary, in two octavo volumes, bears for imprint, Imprime au chateau de Duillier, en Suisse.
1678, Jtdv 19. Died, Andrew Marvell, who stands m the very first and very highest TKok, facile princeps, as an incompatible patriot, the best of controversialists, and the leading prose wit of England. His are the "first sprightly runnings" of that glorious stream of wit, which will bear upon it down to the latest posterity, the names of Swift, Steele, and Addi- son. Before the time of Marvell, wit was to be forced, strained, and conceited. From him wit first came sparkling forth, untouched with baser matter. It was like his personal character. Its main feature was an open clearness. Mean de- traction, or sordid jealousy never for an instant stained it. He turned aside in the midst of an exalted panegyric to Oliver tiromwell, to say the finest thmgs that have ever been said of Charies I. He lei^ for a while his own wit in the Rehearsal Transposed, to praise the wit of Butler, his rival and political enemy. As a poet, Marvell was true, and this is the grand point in poetry. He was not of the highest
- niomas Bowrcr wai the uiUior of a Orwmur and
IHeUimarr of the Malay toagae, paUUhed at londoo, 1701. 4to. He had been engaged nineteen yeari in the Baitem idea, in mercantile concerns, and aoeoropanied hla edttion at the Mab^ OotpeU and Aels tf the Jpottlet, pflntad at the ezpenie of the Kaat India oompanjr, with a map of the Malay iilandi.
order, not perhaps in even a high order, be what he did was genuine. It is sweetaca speaking out in sweetness. In the Iaiig;oa^ there is nothing more exquisitely tender tliaa the Nyrnph Complaining for the Lots of her Fawn. Such poems as thu and the Bermmdai may live, and deserve- to live, as long as the longest and the mightiest. Of as teal a qnalitj are the majority of the poems of Harrell. In a playful and fantastic expression of tender aad voluptuous beauty, they are well nigh unriTaUed.
Andrew Marvell was born at Kingston -«p«B- Hull, Nor. 15, 1620, where bis father was a celebrated preacher of the church of Englaad. The son was educated at Trinity college. Can- bridge, and afterwards travelled to Rome, wbeie he first associated with Milton, and both heinf attached to the popular cause in politics, fonnei a friendship which lasted during his life. It is related of nim, that, while he represeipted the town of Hull in parliament, and was withoit any other resources than a small allowance, which he received for that duty, a courtier wsa sent with a thousand pounds in gold to bar Ub over to the opposite side; he placidly refused the bribe, pointing to a blade-Done of muttoo which was to serve for his dinner on the ensniiif day, as a proof that he was above neoesB^. He was buried in St. Giles's in the Fidib, London.
He was the author of several political treatiKf, published anonymously, particularly one, (h the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Govern- ment tn England; more partieuiarfy from the long Prorogation of Natember, 1675, endissg tie 15(A of February, 1676, until the Meeting <f Parliament, July 16, 1677. The king and hs ministry were so offended at this production, that an advertisement appeared in the GazeOt, offering a reward of one nundred pounds for the discovery of the author, and fifty pounds for the apprehension of the printer. He entered into a long and bitter controversy with Parker, bishop of Oxford, a temporising prelate, a famogs partisan, and virulent writer on the mde of ar- bitrary government, and between him and Mar- vell many pamphlets were written. On ooe occasion a letter, dated July 3, 1676, was re- ceived by Marvell, subscribed J. 6., and con- cluding with these words : — " If (Aon dsaest to print any lie or libel agairut Dr. Parker, by the eternal God I will cut thy throat."
Marvell gives the following pertinent descrip- tion of the powers of the press : — " The pren, invented much about the same time with the Reformation, hath done more mischief to the discipline of our church than all the doctrines can make amends for. It was a happy time ■mhta all learning was in manuscript, and some little officer did keep the keys of the library. Nov, since printing came into the world, such is the mischief, that a man cannot write a hook bat presently he is answered. There have been ways found out to fine, not the people, bat erea the grounds and fields where they assembled ! but no art yet could prevent these seditions
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