REPUBLIC OF LETTERS,

A SELECTION, IN POETRY AND PROSE,

FROM THE

WORKS OF THE MOST. EMINENT WRITERS,

WITH

MANY ORIGINAL PIECES.

BY A. WHITELAW,

EDITOR OF "THE CASQUET OF LITERARY GEMS."

Books are yours,

Within whose silent chamber treasure lies,
Preserved from age to age; more precious far
Than that accumulated store of gold

And orient gems which, for a day of need,

The sultan hoards in his ancestral tombs.

Wordsworth.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

WITH TWENTY ENGRAVINGS.

VOL. III.

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