Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Men of Letters, the Archaeologist, and the Reading Public Horace Wal ole, in one of his celebrated letters to Mann (nov. 774 thus wrote For my part I take Europe to be worn out When Voltaire dies we may say Good night! The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thney didos at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and 11 Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palm (vol. Ii. Pp. 297, Henry Kirke ite, in his poem Time [poetical Works, and Remains, pp. 83, 84, thus expresses the 1 ea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.