ADVERTISEMENT. EDWARD PHILLIPS, son of Edward yard, and undertook the education of John and Edward Phillips, his fifter's "fons. Finding his rooms too little, he "took a house and garden in Alderfgate"ftreet, which was not then so much out "of the world as it is now: and chofe his dwelling at the upper end of a paffage, "that he might avoid rhe noise of the "ftreet. Here he received more boys to "be boarded and inftructed." A 2 After re lating lating the plan of education purfued here, he adds, with his usual acrimony: "From "this wonder-working academy, I do not "know that there ever proceeded any man 66 very eminent for knowledge: its only genuine product, I believe, is a finall Hiftory of Poetry, written in Latin, by " his nephew Phillips, of which, perhaps, "none of my readers has ever heard." In 1648, Phillips became a ftudent of Magdalen Hall, in Oxford, where he continued till 1651; and the title of the work above-mentioned, as given by Anthony Wood, is in the following words. "Tractatulus de carmine Dramatico Poetarum, præfertim in choris Tragicis, et veteris Comœdiæ. Compendiofa enumeratio Poetarum (faltem quorum fama maxime enituit) qui a tempore Dantis Aligerii ufque ad hanc ætatem claruerunt: nempe Italorum, Germanorum, Anglorum, &c." These two things were added to the feventeenth edition of Joh. Buchlerus's book, entitled, "Sacrarum profanarumque phrafium Poeticarum Thefaurus," &c. Lond. 1669, 8vo. Johnson |