PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES

Of Eminent Literary Characters,
WITH NOTES,

Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.

BY FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON, Esq.
Author of the imperial folio History of India, (published under the Patronage
of his Majesty,) &c. &c.

To be continued annually.

"Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo."
"Mixing together profit and delight."

HORACE.

ROSCOMMΟΝ.

LONDON:

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Printed by J. Swan, 76, Fleet Street,
FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1805.