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. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
OUT LO1000

Cooke in quest.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

1592 43-202 23.2

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

No.

XIII. Chaucer, Dunbar, and Burns compared

XIV. On the character of Ossian, as drawn by

the Irish bards, Miss Brooke's Reliques

of Irish poetry

XV. The Cliffords of Craven, continued

XVI. The same, continued

XVII. Biographical sketch of the Rev. Richard

Hole, with critical remarks on his Ar-

thur, a poetical romance

XVIII. The same, continued

XIX. The same, concluded

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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MORNINGS IN SPRING.

No. XIII.

Call up HIм that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold.

MILTON.

And sage DUNBAR. The bard has run his race,
But glitters still the Golden Terge on high.
DYER.

And BURNS, whose happy style,
Whose manner-painting strains
Recall the days,

When tender joys, with pleasing smile,
Blest our young ways.

TELFORD.

It has been beautifully observed by Warton, in
his History of English Poetry, that CHAUCER may
be resembled to "a genial day in an English Spring.
A brilliant sun enlivens the face of nature with an
unusual lustre: the sudden appearance of cloudless
skies, and the unexpected warmth of a tepid atmo-
sphere, after the gloom and the inclemencies of a

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