3497 OR, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES; INVENTED BY THE MONKS AS A FIRE-SIDE RECREATION; AND COMMONLY APPLIED IN THEIR DISCOURSES FROM THE PULPIT: WHENCE THE MOST CELEBRATED OF OUR OWN POETS AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, HAVE EXTRACTED THEIR PLOTS, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, WITH PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS AND COPIOUS NOTES, BY THE REV. CHARLES SWAN, LATE OF CATHARINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. "They" [the Monks]" might be disposed occasionally to recreate their IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, SECRETARY AT WAR, AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, WHEN the high and the honored -the gifted in mind, not less than exalted in station, derive pleasure from protecting the interests of Literature, well may she be proud of the support. |