The sexagenarian; or, the recollections of a literary life (Volume 1 of 2)

Transcriber’s Note: This book was printed with two Chapter XXIs, and no Chapter XLII. No attempt has been made to renumber the chapters.

THE SEXAGENARIAN; OR, THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A LITERARY LIFE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, NO. 62, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD; By R. and R. Gilbert, St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell
1817.


Among various other particularities which marked the whimsicality of our Sexagenarian’s character, there were discovered in his manuscript, a great many specimens of Dedications, ready cut and dried.
Of these, some were inscribed with due solemnity to very great men, to Ministers, Prelates, Court Favourites, and so forth; others were written in a less formal style to individuals of known genius, talents, and learning; one or two were of a playful kind, and addressed to old college friends and acquaintance; one more particularly was of a facetious tendency in the character of Satan to Bonaparte. Oh! that the Sexagenarian had but lived to witness the catastrophe of that miscreant adventurer!
But of all these pieces, some composed with more and some with less care and circumspection, one more immediately forced itself upon the attention, inscribed