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Defcription and antiquities of Rhuddlan castle, town, &c. from Pennant's Journey to Snowdon

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Hiftorical account of Denbeigh, of its caftle, church, charter, &c. from the fame

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An account of the ancient manner of hunting in Wales, and of the laws relative thereto; from the fame

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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General view and character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth's age; from Warton's Hiftory of English Poetry A short hiftorical account of Athens, from the time of her Perfian triumphs, to that of her becoming fubject to the Turks, with the manners of the prefent inhabitants; from Harris's Philological Inquiries

Concerning Natural Beauty from the fame

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Some account of Literature in Ruffia, and of its progress towards being civilized; from the fame

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On the advantages of Tafte for the general beauties of nature 163.

POETRY.

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Ode for the new year 1781, by William Whitehead, Esq.
Ode for the King's birth-day, June 4, 1781, by the fame
Extract from "The Triumphs of Temper," a poem, by Mr. Haley 169

Defcription of the Sphere of Senfibility; from the fame

Extracts from the Library, a poem

Extracts from Sympathy, a poem

addicted himself to the study of poetry

An Ode, in imitation of Alcaus

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Extracts from an Epifle to a young gentleman, on his having

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Honoria, or the Day of All-Souls, a poem; by Mr. Jerningham 184

ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1781.

Philological Inquiries; by James Harris, Efq. 2 vols. 8vo.

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The History of English Poetry, from the clafe of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century. To which are prefixed two differtations: 1. On the origin of romantic fiction in Europe: 2. On the introduction of learning into England. Volume III. 4to. To this volume is prefixed a third Differtation, on the Gefta Romanorum. By Thomas Warton, B. D. Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and of the Society of Antiquaries, and late Profeffor of Poetry in the University of Oxford

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