So with me live, and with me die;
And may no "FINIS" e'er intrude
To break into mere "_Printers' Pie_"
The Type of our Beatitude!
(ERRATUM.--If my suit you flout,
And choose some happier Youth to wed,
'Tis but to cross AMANDA out,
And read another name instead.)
Note:
[18] "Pronounced Bre-veer" (Printers' Vocabulary).
M. ROUQUET ON THE ARTS
M. Rouquet's book is a rare duodecimo of some two hundred pages, bound
in sheep, which, in the copy before us, has reached that particular
stage of disintegration when the scarfskin, without much persuasion,
peels away in long strips. Its title is--_L'Etat des Arts, en
Angleterre. Par M. Rouquet, de l'Academie Royale de Peinture & de
Sculpture_; and it is "_imprime a Paris_" though it was to be obtained
from John Nourse, "_Libraire dans le_ Strand, _proche_ Temple-barr"--a
well-known importer of foreign books, and one of Henry Fielding's
publishers. The date is 1755, being the twenty-eighth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Second--a reign not generally regarded as
favourable to art of any kind. In what month of 1755 the little volume
was first put forth does not appear; but it must have been before
October, when Nourse issued an English version. There is a dedication,
in the approved French fashion, to the Marquis de Marigny, "_Directeur &
Ordonnateur General de ses Batimens, Jardins, Arts, Academies &
Manufactures_" to Lewis the Fifteenth, above which is a delicate
headpiece by M.
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