An Apologie For The Royal Party 1659 And A Panegyric To Charles
Chapter 5
And O that it were now in my power to speak some great thing, worthy this great day; I should put all the flowers of _Orators_ and Raptures of _Poets_ into one lofty & high Expression, and yet not Reach what I would say to Your Majestie: For never since there was a Citie, or Kingdom, did a Day appear more glorious to _England_, never since it was a Nation, and in which there either was, or ought to be so universal a Jubilation: Not that Your Triumphal Charriots do drag the miserable Captives, but are accompanied by freed Citizens; perfidie is now vanquished, popular fury chayn'd, crueltie tam'd, luxury restrained, these lie under the spondells of Your Wheeles, where Empire, Faith, Love, and Justice Ride Triumphant, and nothing can be added to Your _M_a_j_esties glory but its perpetuitie. But whence, alas! should I have this confidence, after so many _Elogies_ and _Panegyricks_ of great and Eloquent men, who consecrate the memorie of this daies happinesse; and (were the subject, like that of all other things) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who was sometimes wont to employ his pen for Your _M_ajestie being absent, should now be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of new Enthusiasme: I find myself then compell'd out of a grateful sense of my dutie for the publick benefit, and if your _M_ajestie forbid not, or withdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voice should not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, wherein everybody has a part, every one a share?
Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowes at your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your Loyal Subjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God, and as he best loves it,
_Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo._
_DIXI._
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Publications for the fifth year [1950-1951]
(_At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted._)
FRANCES REYNOLDS (?): _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c._ (1785). Introduction by James L. Clifford.
THOMAS BAKER: _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). Introduction by John Harrington Smith.
DANIEL DEFOE: _Vindication of the Press_ (1718). Introduction by Otho Clinton Williams.
JOHN EVELYN: _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); _A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.
CHARLES MACKLIN: _Man of the World_ (1781). Introduction by Dougald MacMillan.
_Prefaces to Fiction_. Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.
THOMAS SPRAT: _Poems._
SIR WILLIAM PETTY: _The Advice of W. P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib for the Advancement of some particular Parts of Learning_ (1648).
THOMAS GRAY: _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751). (Facsimile of first edition and of portions of Gray's manuscripts of the poem).
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
First Year (1946-1947)
1. Richard Blackmore's _Essay upon Wit_ (1716), and Addison's _Freeholder_ No. 45 (1716).
2. Samuel Cobb's _Of Poetry_ and _Discourse on Criticism_ (1707).
3. _Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage_ (1698), and Richard Willis' _Occasional Paper No. IX_ (1698). (OUT OF PRINT)
4. _Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133. (OUT OF PRINT)
5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700) and _Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693).
6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_ (1704) and _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704).
Second Year (1947-1948)
7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702).
8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684).
9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).
10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc._ (1744).
11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717).
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.
Third Year (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720).
14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753).
15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712).
16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_ (1709).
18. Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_; and Thomas Brereton's Preface to _Esther_.
Fourth Year (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709).
20. Lewis Theobald's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Gradison, Clarissa, and Pamela_ (1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham.
{Transcriber's notes:
1. Word unclear in original.
2. Original reads "perfidiousuess"; changed to "perfidiousness".
3. Original reads "single person condemn"; changed to "single person; condemn".
4. Original reads "extram"; changed to "extream".
5. Word unclear in original.
6. Word unclear in original.
7. Original reads "Hypocrsie"; changed to "Hypocrisie".
8. Original reads "butt hat"; changed to "but that".
9. Original reads "ito their houses"; changed to "into their houses".
10. Original reads "innocenie"; changed to "innocencie".
11. Original reads "I have seens"; changed to "I have seen".
12. Original reads "univresall"; changed to "universall". }