The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, B. D. (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802. Excerpt: ... "think we lived in a land of volcanoes. I hope "the gout will permit me to have a few gallops "with the Duke of Beaufort's dogs at my re"turn to Oxford. I don't mean that I have "any presentiments of it. I have borrowed from "the muniment house of this college a most "curious roll of W. Wykeham's house-keeping "expences for the year 1394. It is 100 feet "long and 12 broad, and really the most ve"nerable and valuable record I have ever seen "of the kind. I am making an abstract of it, "which I believe I shall publish. But you "shall see what I have done. " William of Wykeham's roll is again noticed in a letter from Winchester, dated Sept. 18, 1784. "I write to you, I think according to annual cus"torn in long vacations, to ask how you go on, "and whether old Oxford is still in being. "I think I shall see you in about five weeks; but "I should not wish to return till we have a bit "of a common room. This place is dull enough "without drumming and fifing, but I am little "at it. I will bring with me Wyke"ham's Rotulus Ho/picii, which you will like to see, and where some of the abbreviations are too tough for me. I am ready for publica tion, when they are got over. But else I shall leave them as I find them. It will be "more than a merely curious work." From Winchester, August 18, 1780, he begins a letter, "After a long camping tour, "I am sitting down again to my book in "good earnest;" and desires Mr. Price to send him some transcripts "of passages relating to "our old English poets, satirists chiefly;" which should seem to look to the fourth volume of his History, in which, as before noticed, he commences with Hall, the first English satirist. This letter gives a proof of his fondness for military spectacles, in the enumeration and arrangement of...