Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . fporting Pleafures of this Place, and whichWords are, indeed, too poor and barren to ex-prefs. What I have to fay upon that, and uponthofe Difcoveries I made in the Temple ofFame, particularly relating to the few Patronsof Poetry, and the po
Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . fporting Pleafures of this Place, and whichWords are, indeed, too poor and barren to ex-prefs. What I have to fay upon that, and uponthofe Difcoveries I made in the Temple ofFame, particularly relating to the few Patronsof Poetry, and the politer Arts, with the Ho-nour and Glory they enjoy, I defer to anotherOpportunity; when I fhail likewife %viq. an Ac-count of the reft of the Mufes, and the admi-rable Precepts they gave to bring to Perfeftionin each their chofen Adorers. The Favoursand Inftructions I had receivd, gave me thePrivilege of being carryM back by Pegafus him-D {^% [34] felf, who bore me from Mount Paryiaffus toClarefffom almoft as fwift as Thought; where,re-entring my Body, I got up and blefsd thePlace, the happy Manfion that had aftbrded mcfo glorious and ufeful a Vifion ; and from thencemade what hafte I could to commit it to wri-ting, in the manner I fend it to you. I (hall on-ly here add, that I am. Sir, Tour mojl humble. and moji obedient Servant, Carlo [35]LETTER II. On Flayers, ^ws Mundus Agit Hiftiionem, Lifes a poor Player,That frets and firms his Hour on the Stage,And then is heard no more. To Mr. W s, with a Mamtfcript Play, Sir, WITH this I have fent you, by a par-ticular Friend, a Manufcript Tragedy,not doubting your Juftice and Under/landing,fo far as to fear its Reading and Reception^Were it my own, I fhould not be fo confident ofits Succefs, either with you or the Town; butit being an Alteration of the beft Performance ofa very popular Poet, feveral of whofe Tragediesare ftill aded with the higheft Applaufe, itgives me the Aflurance to hope that it willhave a more partic
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