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.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET,

MDCCCXXVIII.

TO NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LINOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

LONDON: 'PROINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS

OF

VOL. I.

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1. Introductory.—On the moral and literary

associations connected with the spring of

the year. Two sonnets

II. On the influence of an early acquired love for

literature. Epistles of Pliny

III. The Cliffords of Craven : Historical and bio-

graphical view of their singular and ro-

mantic annals

IV. The same, continued

V. Memoirs of sir Philip Sidney and his sister.

Critique on their joint version of the

Psalms

VI. The same, continued

VII. The same, concluded

VIII. The Cliffords of Craven, continued .

IX. The banks of the Esk,-Drummond of Haw-

thornden

X. The same, concluded.-Ramsay, Mackenzie,

sir Walter Scott

XII. Biographical notice of John Mason Good,

M.D. F.R.S., &c. &c. Observations on

his writings. Sonnet to his memory

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