BY FRANCIS, LORD JEFFREY; AND ESSAYS ON THE NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE. BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, LL.D., F.R.S., LONDON AND EDINBURGH; PREBENDARY OF SARUM, A careful reprint of these valuable ssays.-A M. LONDON: PRINTED BY VINCENT BROOKS, D AND SON, GATE STREET, W.C MAR 2 2 1912 W 1537 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE first edition of this work was published in the year 1790. After so long an interval, I should not have presumed again to present it to the public, if I had not been informed by my booksellers that some wish had lately been expressed for a second edition. In preparing it for the press, I have thought it my duty to add a few observations on the 'Origin of the Beauty and Sublimity of the Human Countenance and Form,' to complete the second Essay. Of the general plan which I have sketched in the introduction, I lament to think that so little has been accomplished; and still more that the progress of years, and the increase of more serious duties, render me still less able to accomplish the original design I had formed. Yet, if the public should express any wish to see these inquiries concluded, I shall be proud to feel myself under the obligation of attempting, at least, to obey it. ARCHIBALD ALISON. |