MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR RICHARD STEELE, SOLDIER, DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST, AND PATRIOT, WITH HIS CORRESPONDENCE, AND NOTICES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES, BY HENRY R. MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF "THOMAS MOORE: HIS LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CONTEMPORARIES," TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM P. NIMMO. 1865. [All rights reserved.]} ΤΟ THE LORD DUFFERIN AND CLANDEBOYE. ONE OF H.M. SECRETARIES OF STATE FOR INDIA, LORD-LIEUTENANT OF DOWN, ETC., WHO, AS A DESCENDANT OF SHERIDAN'S (A NAME IN WHICH, WITH RARE GOOD FORTUNE, GENIUS AND ONE WHO HAS HIMSELF ACQUIRED APPLAUSE AS A MEMBER OF THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS, IS A FITTING SPONSOR OF A WORK ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND AGE OF STEELE, These Volumes are Inscribed, WITH ONLY THE FEAR THAT THEY MAY NOT BE FOUND WORTHY OF THE FAVOUR SO KINDLY ACCORDED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. |