MORNINGS IN SPRING.

LONDON :

FRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS. OR

RETROSPECTIONS,

BIOGRAPHICAL, CRITICAL,

AND HISTORICAL.

BY

NATHAN DRAKE, M.D. H. A. L.

AUTHOR OF ESSAYS ON PERIODICAL LITERATURE, &c.

“ How sweet in morning hours,
When vernal airs stir the fresh-blowing flowers,
The light that shines reflected from the past !"

ROGERS.

TO

HIS CHILDREN

THESE VOLUMES

ARE INSCRIBED,

BY

THEIR AFFECTIONATE FATHER,

NATHAN DRAKE.

Hadleigh, Suffolk.

April, 1827.