[6]William Eyres of Warrington, who was one of the most remarkable printers of his day, produced a number of works noted for their typographic excellence and beauty. He printed, in addition to the works above mentioned, the first editions of Mrs Barbauld’s poems, Gilbert Wakefield’s Lucretius, and other well-known classics.
[7]She was then sixty-two, and lived twenty years longer.
[8]The lines were the well-known stanza:—
“Life! We’ve been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
’Tis hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps ’twill cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning.
Choose thine own time;
Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime