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 fowers,
The light that shines reflected from the past !"

ROGERS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET,

MDCCCXXVIII.

TO NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

SOWO

LONDON: *PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS,

LONDON

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1. Introductory.—On the moral and literary

associations connected with the spring of

the year. Two sonnets . . .

II. On the influence of an early acquired love for

literature. Epistles of Pliny . .

III. The Cliffords of Craven : Historical and bio-

graphical view of their singular and ro-

mantic annals . . . .

IV. The same, continued

V. Memoirs of sir Philip Sidney and his sister.

Critique on their joint version of the

Psalms . .

VI. The same, continued

VII. The same, concluded

VIII. The Cliffords of Craven, continued .

IX. The banks of the Esk.–Drummond of Haw-

thornden . . . . .

X. The same, concluded.—Ramsay, Mackenzie,

sir Walter Scott . . . .

XII. Biographical notice of John Mason Good,

M.D. F.R.S., &c. &c. Observations on

his writings. Sonnet to his memory .