“As no work in the English language can be commended with more confidence, it will argue bad taste in a female in this country to be without a complete edition of the writings of one who was an honour to her sex and to humanity, and whose productions, from first to last, contain no syllable calculated to call a blush to the cheek of modesty and virtue.  There is, moreover, in Mrs. Hemans’s poetry, a moral purity and a religious feeling which commend it, in an especial manner, to the discriminating reader.  No parent or guardian will be under the necessity of imposing restrictions with regard to the free perusal of every production emanating from this gifted woman.  There breathes throughout the whole a most eminent exemption from impropriety of thought or diction; and there is at times a pensiveness of tone, a winning sadness in her more serious compositions, which tells of a soul which has been lifted from the contemplation of terrestrial things, to divine communings with beings of a purer world.”

MILTON, YOUNG, GRAY, BEATTIE, AND COLLINS’S POETICAL WORKS.

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WITH SIX BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

COWPER AND THOMSON’S PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS.

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Including two hundred and fifty Letters, and sundry Poems of Cowper, never before published in this country; and of Thomson a new and interesting Memoir, and upwards of twenty new Poems, for the first time printed from his own Manuscripts, taken from a late Edition of the Aldine Poets, now publishing in London.

WITH SEVEN BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

The distinguished Professor Silliman, speaking of this edition, observes:  “I am as much gratified by the elegance and fine taste of your edition, as by the noble tribute of genius and moral excellence which these delightful authors have left for all future generations; and Cowper, especially, is not less conspicuous as a true Christian, moralist and teacher, than as a poet of great power and exquisite taste.”

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The beauty, correctness, and convenience of this favourite edition of these standard authors are so well known, that it is scarcely necessary to add a word in its favour.  It is only necessary to say, that the publishers have now issued an illustrated edition, which greatly enhances its former value.  The engravings are excellent and well selected.  It is the best library edition extant.

CRABBE, HEBER, AND POLLOK’S POETICAL WORKS.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME, OCTAVO.

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