Beside the Dedications to him by Dr. Goldsmith [ante, ii. 216], the Reverend Dr. Francklin [ante, iv.

I took up a volume of Dryden, containing the CONQUEST of GRANADA, and several other plays, of which all the dedications had such studied conclusions.

I. TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE HONOURABLE SIR ALEXANDER COCHRANE, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVAL FORCES ON THE LEEWARD ISLAND STATION, NOW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE ISLAND OF GUADALOUPE, &C. &C. &C. Dear Sir, Unused to the adulatory language of dedications, I am well aware that any such mode of address would offend your delicacy.

Usually the needy novelist's dedications were made up of servile adulation and barefaced begging.

But of all her dedications those addressed to her own sex were the most melting, and from their frequency were evidently the most fruitful.

Many of his own love-longings were couched in the form of the dedications prefixed to his compositions.

And Tolstoi's claim, that Beethoven must have written it under the inspiration of a too amorous mood, is pretty well answered by the fact that Beethoven, who was so liberal of his dedications to women, whenever they had inspired him, dedicated this work to two different violinists, both men.

" These letters, S.R., are the well known initials of Samuel Rowlands, who appears to have been a Welshman, from his love of Triads, and from the dedications found in this the rarest of his works, and those described by Mr. Collier in his Catalogue of the Bridgewater House Collection.

His critical essays were mostly written as prefaces or dedications to his poems and plays.

A noble family might be allowed to regret, that one of their members was chiefly to rely for the maintenance of her husband, her family, and herself, upon the fees of dedications, and occasional pieces of poetry, and the uncertain profits of the theatre.

It would seem, that this gallant and chivalrous peer was then a protector of Dryden, though he afterwards seems more especially to have patronised his enemy Shadwell; upon whose northern dedications, inscribed to the duke and his lady, our author is particularly severe.

Such eulogy was the taste of the days of Charles, when ladies were deified in dedications and painted as Venus or Diana upon canvas.

The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications has been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description; and perhaps no writer has equalled him in the profusion and elegance of his adulation.

And surely the whole literary profession, of which the present writer is a feeble unit, must cherish a sentiment of grateful respect for the memory of a man who, in refusing the dedication of a song, informed Mrs. Norton that he had been obliged to make a rule of refusing dedications, "because, in his situation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he had been much exposed to authors.

148-9, 152, 154, 163; dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv.

DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4; flattery allowed, v. 285; Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2; skill in them, ii. 1; Works without any, i. 257, n. 2; means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2; one scholar dedicating to another, iv.

356. FULLER, Thomas, his dedications, ii., n. 2.

410; compliments him in The False Alarm, ii. 112; Dedications, ii. 44; iii. 113; for the King against Fox, iv.

Ed. DEDICATIONS.

HAZEN, ALLEN T. Samuel Johnson's prefaces and dedications.

HAZEN, ALLEN T. Samuel Johnson's prefaces and dedications.

Dedications to ignorant Men are as absurd as any of the Speeches of Bulfinch in the Droll: Such an Address one is apt to translate into other Words; and when the Different Parties are thoroughly considered, the Panegyrick generally implies no more than if the Author should say to the Patron; My very good Lord, You and I can never understand one another, therefore I humbly desire we may be intimate Friends for the future.

The preliminary Dissertations, Dedications, and Prefaces, have been corrected from the excellent edition of Mr Malone.

He has special control of the purses of the people, and hence is in great requisition wherever there is a call for funds, and especially at Church dedications.

Little did I think that you, Aveline, would look on and smile while these ignorant and benighted folk set up their idol, piping, dancing, and singing around it as the Gentiles did at the dedications of their deities.