FROM THE MOST EMINENT

PROSE WRITERS.

А

UNIQUE SELECTION,

MORAL, INSTRUCTIVE, AND ENTERTAINING,

FROM THE MOST EMINENT

Prose and Epistolary criters.

BY

R. A. DAVENPORT, ESQ.
EDITOR OF WHITTINGHAM'S EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

II.

CHARACTERS,

CHISWICK:

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