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No. 9 Sifrih Fmrth Street, PkOadelphU, tPLXMDlD LIBRARY IDITIOlfS. BYRON'S WORKS, complete in 1 toL Sva, inclodiiig all hie Sop- pi eeee J and Attributed Poema. i;^ This edition has been carefuIlT compared with the leoent London edition of Mr. Marray, and made compete bj the addition of more than fifty pages of poems heretofore unpublisbed in Elngland. Among these there are a number that have nerer appeared in anjr American edition ; and the pub- lishers believe they are warranted in saying, that this is the moei eompUte edition qf Lord ByrofCe PoeUcal Workt, ever published in the United Sutes. COWPER AND THOMSONS- PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS, complete in 1 vol. 8vo. indudlog two hundred and fifty Letter^ and sundfy Poems of Cowper, never bdore published in thii country ; and of Thomson a new and interesting Memoir, and upwards of twenty new poems, for the first time printed fimn his own Manuscripti^ taken firam a late edition of the Aldine Poets, now publishing in London. The distinguished Profeieor SUliman, speaking of this edition, observesb " I am as much gratified by the elegance and fine taste of Tour edition, as by the noble tribute of genius and UKiral excellence which these dehghttnl au- thors have left for all future generations j and Cowper espedally, is not less conspicuous as a true Christian moralist and teacher, than as a poet of great ix>wer and exquisite taste." GOLDSMITH'S ANIMATED NATURE, in 4 vols. 8vo. illua. trated with eighty-five copper-plates.
- «* Goldsmith can never be made obsolete, while delicate genius, exouisita
leeUng, fine invention, the moat harmonibus metre, and the nappiestmetion are at all valued. This is a work that sho i be in the library of every ftmily, being written by one of the most talented authors in tho English language. MILTON, YOUNG, GRAY, BEATTIE, AND X;OLLINS» PO- ETICAL WORKS, complete in 1 vol. 8vo. THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE, in 1 vol. 8vo. with a life of the author, written by himself The beauues of this author ars so well known, and his errors in style and expression so lew and hi betvreen, that one reads with renewed delight his delicate turns, &c THE POETICAL WORKS OP ROGERS, CAMPBELL, MONTGOMERY, LAMB, AND KIRK WHITE, complete in 1 vol. THE POETICAL WORKS 09 MRS. HEMANS. Complete in 1 vol. 8vo.
- As no work hi the English language can be commended with more con-
fidence, it will argue bad taste in a female in this country to be wUhout a complete edition m the writings of one who was an honour to her sex uid to humanity, and whose productions, first to last, contain no syllable calculated to call a blush to the eneek of modesty and virtue. There is. moreover, in Mrs. Hemans* poetry a moral purity, and a religious feelinff, which commend it in an especial manner, to the discriminating reader. So parent or guar- dian will be under the neoeasity of imposing restrictions with regard to th« (reeperusalofevery production einanating from this gifted woman. Thera brnnthes throughout the whole a most eminent exemption from im pro prie ty of thought or oictkm ; and there u kt times a pensiveness of tone, a vrinning va:-"- '1
