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BOSWELL. It is a translation of the introduction to l'Histoire de Danemarck, par M. Mallet. Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. 1871, p. 1458. He was a Welshman. This is the common cant against faithful Biography.
In the previous sixteen years there had been published four editions of Pope's Shakespeare and two of Theobald's. In the next ten years were published five editions of Hanmer's Shakespeare, and two of Warburton's, besides Johnson's Observations on Macbeth. Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. 1871, p. 2270. In her foolish Essay on Shakespeare, p. 15. See ante, ii. 88.
He kept stopping to look at enormous holes in the ground and laughing at something that seemed to tickle his sense of humor. "See that?" he said. "That's old Charlie Lowndes's work." At another pit in upheaved earth he said: "That's Charlie Lowndes again... Old Charlie gave 'em hell. He's a topping chap. You must meet him... My God! look at that!"
The Courtier was translated into English so early as 1561. Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. 1871, p. 386. 'Popery, he says, 'was never so well understood by the nation as it came to be upon this occasion. Whitby's Commentary on the New Testament was published in 1703-9. By Henry Mackenzie, the author of The Man of Feeling. Ante, i. 360. It had been published anonymously this spring.
To be sure, several of them have made marks very black ones. Now let us turn the pages of the "Careless Husband," as we scan them in Lowndes's "British Theatre," and see if we cannot extract some amusement therefrom. The scene opens in the lodgings of Sir Charles Easy, who, like many other dramatic personages of the eighteenth century, has a name that signifies his character.
When a girl can't very well have the meeting at her house we have it there. Once it was to be at Betty Lowndes's house and her little sister had the chicken-pox so we couldn't meet there and we had it in the attic." Nettie's face cleared, but presently a new difficulty presented itself, one which she hesitated to speak of but which was a very serious one.
The words "For the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private especially in New England," though given in Thomas's "History of Printing," Lowndes's "Bibliographers Manual," Hood's "History of Music in New England," and many reliable books of reference, as part of the correct title, were in fact not printed upon the titlepage of this first edition, but appeared on subsequent ones.
This is from Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual by Bohn; where it is added that "Plattes published several other works chiefly relating to Husbandry, and is said to have dropped down dead in the London streets for want of food." By this means not only the Heavens, but also the Earth, would declare the glory of God more evidently than it hath done. -As for Mr.
To many there would appear to be an equal degree of verdant simplicity in mentioning among the specialties and distinguishing features of a collection the Biographia and Encyclopædia Britannica, Lowndes's Manual, the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, Boyle, Ducange, Moreri, Dodsley's Annual Register, Watt's Bibliotheca, and Diodorus Siculus.
D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 293, 5. 'I snatch, he wrote a few weeks later, 'every lucid interval, and animate myself with such amusements as the time offers. Piozzi Letters, ii. 349. He had written to her on Nov. 10. See Croker's Boswell, p. 742. In 1756-7 they were all taken down. Dodsley's London and its Environs, ed. 1761, iv. 136-143. In Lowndes's Bibl.
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