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!"

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

ROGERS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

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XIII. Chaucer, Dunbar, and Burns compared

XIV. On the character of Ossian, as drawn by

the Irish bards, Miss Brooke's Reliques

XX. The Cliffords of Craven, continued

XXI. The same, concluded

XXII. Milton and Galileo-Their interview at

Arcetri in Tuscany.-Vision of Galileo.

-Sonnet.-Collins's fragment, entitled

“The Bell of Arragon," completed

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