SPECIMENS

ENGLISH PROSE-WRITERS.

OP

English Prose-Writers,

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE CLOSE OF THE

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,

WITH

SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY,

INCLUDING

. AN ACCOUNT OF BOOKS
AS WELL AS OF THEIR AUTHORS;

WITH.

OCCASIONAL CRITICISMS, fc.

BY GEORGE BURNETT,

Late of Baliol College, Oxford.

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. 1,

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER ROW.