LIVES OF DR. JOHN DONNE; SIR HENRY WOTTON; MR. RICHARD HOOKER; MR. GEORGE HERBERT; PRINTED BY WILSON, SPENCE, AND MAWMAN. SOLD BY J. ROBSON, NEW BOND-STREET, B. WHITE, FLEET-STREET, T. PAYNE, AT THE MEWS GATE, AND T. EGERTON, WHITEHALL, LONDON; J. COOKE, OXFORD; J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; AND WILSON, SPENCE, AND MAWMAN, J. TODD, AND H. SOTHERAN, YORK. Anno 1796. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR RICHARD PEPPER ARDEN, MASTER OF THE ROLLS, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL. SIR, PERFECTLY fenfible of that regard which you entertain for the virtuous character, I experience no difficulty in committing to your patronage a new edition of the following pages. They contain portraits of genuine excellence, finished by no unskilful artist. Charmed from my earliest years with their captivating beauties, I fhall probably be deemed a partial and prejudiced spectator. Be this as it may— when I request your permiffion to infcribe to you a volume which exhibits a full and adequate representation of perfons eminent for their great and amiable qualities, I am confident of your kind indulgence. I am, WYCLIFFE, JAN. 16, 1796. SIR, with all poflible respect, your Honour's most obliged and devoted fervant, THOMAS ZOUCH. |