The whole works of William Browne, of Tavistock, and of the Inner Temple; . HOMAS DAVIES, the enterprifing and intelli-gent bookfeller to whom the world was indebtedfor the only colleiftive edition of the Works ofWilliam Browne hitherto procurable (1772,i2mo., three volumes), was aflifted in his laudable undertakingby more than one of the diftinguifhed fcholars of that day, andhad the advantage of the occafional notes made in a copy of thefolio impreffion of the Paftorals by the Rev. W. Thompfon, ofQueens College, Oxford. Davies mentions among his corref-pondents and coadjutors in this matter
The whole works of William Browne, of Tavistock, and of the Inner Temple; . HOMAS DAVIES, the enterprifing and intelli-gent bookfeller to whom the world was indebtedfor the only colleiftive edition of the Works ofWilliam Browne hitherto procurable (1772,i2mo., three volumes), was aflifted in his laudable undertakingby more than one of the diftinguifhed fcholars of that day, andhad the advantage of the occafional notes made in a copy of thefolio impreffion of the Paftorals by the Rev. W. Thompfon, ofQueens College, Oxford. Davies mentions among his corref-pondents and coadjutors in this matter the Rev. John Price,Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Dr. Farmer, and the Rev. The works of Browne poflefs in our eyes and eftima-tion the peculiar intereft, that there is good reafon for believingthe ftatement to be corred:, to a certain extent at leaft, thatMilton was indebted to them for fuggeftions in no fewer thanthree of his own produ6lions, Lycidas^ Comus, and ParadifeRegained. Critics have detedled the germs of fome of the beftthoughts and fineft paflages
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