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NUGE LITERARIÆ:

PROSE AND VERSE.

BY THE

REV. RICHARD WINTER HAMILTON,

MINISTER OF BELGRAVE CHAPEL, LEEDS.

died July 1849.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., SMITH, ELDER, & CO.,
AND JACKSON & WALFORD;

LEEDS: J. Y. KNIGHT, AND JOHN CROSS.

MDCCCXLI.

"Nec meus hic sermo est."

HORACE.-Sat: Lib: ii., Sat: 2.

:

Ego vero fateor, me his studiis esse deditum cæteros pudeat, si qui ita se literis abdiderunt, ut nihil possint ex his neque ad communem afferre fructum, neque in adspectum lucemque proferre................................ .Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, aut quis mihi jure succenseat, si, quantum cæteris ad suas res obeundas, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis, tantum mihi egomet ad hæc studia recolenda sumpsero ?"

CICERO.-pro ARCHIA.

"Saltem daretur in sacris literis tranquillè consenescere!"

ERASMUS.-Epist.

"Let them be considered as the desultory productions of a man sedulously employed

upon better things."

SOUTHEY.

THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF THE HUMAN SPECIES CONSIDERED,

IN RELATION TO INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT,

ON THE GROUNDS AND SOURCES OF HISTORY,

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ON THE TRAGIC GENIUS OF SHAKSPEARE,

THE CLASSICAL COMEDY COMPARED WITH THAT OF SHAKSPEARE,

ON THE YORKSHIRE DIALECT,

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SONNETS COMPOSED AT THE SEA-SIDE AND IN VIEW OF FLAMBO-

STANZAS WRITTEN ON RETURNING FROM IONA, THE SEAT OF ST.