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TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

The favour of the Public having

conducted a THIRD edition of the LITERARY HOURS to the Press, the author has taken the opportunity not only of correcting and enlarging the former edition, but of soliciting its attention. to a THIRD volume; which, being a continuation of the plan hitherto approved, will, he ventures to hope, experience a cordial reception.

To accommodate the purchasers of the second edition, the third volume, printed so as to correspond with it in size and appearance, will be sold separately.

Hadleigh, Suffolk,
January, 1804.

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TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

IN this edition, many of the former numbers have been corrected and enlarged, and nine new ones have been added. An Index also of those authors and artists on whose productions any comment or criticism has been passed, is annexed to the second volume, and will, the author hopes, prove useful as an aid to reference,

Hadleigh, Suffolk,
April, 1800,

NUMBER Í.

Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucretî
Exitio Terras cum dabit una Dies.*

OVID.

THIS prediction of Ovid, with regard to the durability of the Poems of Lucretius, was in imminent danger of being compleatly overthrown through the barbarism of modern Europe. Lucretius had, for several centuries, disappeared, and had entirely escaped the researches of the few who were interested in the preservation of ancient literature, until the commencement of the fifteenth century, when

* This second line of my motto is a verbal copy from Lucretius; and in thus using the very phraseology of the philoso phic poet, Ovid appears to have thought that the intrinsic merit of this tribute of respect would be doubled. Lucretius, in lib, v. 93, 96, thus expresses himself:

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