In order to render the following MISCELLANY complete, no pains have been spared in procuring pieces, and no resources have been left unexplored. That nothing might escape us, we have even examined the indefatigable Dr. RAWLINSON'S voluminous collection of manuscripts presented to the Bodleian Library, but, we must acknowledge, without success; as not one poignant ingredient was to be found in all that immense heap of rare and invaluable originals. Indeed, our chief assistance has been from some curious and ingenious Members of the University of Oxford, who have made it their business to preserve such fugitive pieces as were best adapted to this design. Many conjectures, we apprehend, will be formed concerning the Collector of this work. Some will probably suspect him to be that whimsical genius who compiled the COMPANION to the Guide; while others will perhaps guess him to be the same with the well-bred and humorous writer of the TERRÆ FILIUS; but these sagacious investigators will have found out nothing, even if they should succeed thus far in their conjectures, as most unluckily the author of those pieces will never be known. It may be proper in this place to advertise our readers, that great part of the first edition of this work was printed off, when we were so unfortunate as to lose the facetious Mr. BENJAMIN TYRRELL, cook, in the High-Street, Oxford; but it is hoped that BEN's cookery, which makes no inconsiderable figure in this work, will still continue to be relished by all readers of true taste. epithetical, fantastic, hyperbolical, and diabolical style of our modern Ode-Writers and Monody-Mongers -- 61 - 92 Epigram, written by an Exciseman, and addressed to a An Epistle to Mr. Spence, when Tutor to Lord Middlesex: in imitation of the First Book of Horace, Epistle 18. |