IMPERFECT HINTS

TOWARDS A NEW EDITION OF

SHAKESPEAR E.

PART SECOND AND LAST.

Has any painter ever executed a fcene, a character of Shakespeare, that approached to the prototype fo near as Shakespeare himself attained to nature? Yet is there a pencil in a living hand, as capable of pronouncing the paffions as our unequalled poet; a pencil not only inspired by his infight into nature, but by the graces and tafte of Grecian artists.

MR. WALPOLE ON LADY DIANA BEAUCLERC.

Then bold INVENTION all thy powers diffufe,
Of all thy fifters thou the noblest muse.
Thee ev'ry art, thee ev'ry grace infpires,
Thee Phoebus fills with all his brightest fires.

MR. MASON'S TRANSLATION OF DU FRESNOY.

Dear fon of memory, great heir of fame,

What need'st thou fuch weak witnefs of thy name?

Thou in our wonder and astonishment

Haft built thyfelf a live-long monument.

MILTON'S EPITAPH ON SHAKESPEARE.

LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE Logographic Press, PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE, BLACKFRIARS,

AND SOLD BY

MESSRS. ROBSON AND CLARKE, NEW BOND-STREET; R. BALDWIN, PATER-NOSTER-
ROW; AND W. RICHARDSON, UNDER THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.

M,DCC, LXXXVIII,

THE HONOURABLE

HORACE WALPOLE,

AND

Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS,

In grateful respect for the pleasure received from the productions of their Genius, and with unfeigned efteem for their highly valued Private Worth,

THE SECOND PART OF THIS PROSPECTUS

IS MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THEM,

BY

THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT,

The Author.