"Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!"
which is not in Shakspeare's Richard III.?
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
[Colley Cibber is the author of this line. It occurs in The Tragical History of Richard III., altered from Shakspeare, Act IV., near the end.]
"Peter Wilkins."—Who wrote this book? and when was it published?
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
[This work first appeared in 1750, and in its brief title is comprised all that is known—all that the curiosity of an inquisitive age can discover—of the history of the work, and name and lineage of the author. It is entitled The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. By R. S., a passenger in the Hector; Lond. 1750, 2 vols. The dedication is signed R. P. "To suppose the unknown author," remarks a writer in the Retrospective Review, vol. vii. p. 121., "to have been insensible to, or careless about, the fair fame to which a work, original in its conception, and almost unique in purity, did justly entitle him, is to suppose him to have been exempt from the influence of that universal feeling, which is ever deepest in the noblest bosoms; the ardent desire of being long remembered after death—of shining bright in the eyes of their cotemporaries, and, when their sun is set, of leaving behind a train of glory in the heavens, for posterity to contemplate with love and veneration.">[
The Barmecides' Feast.—Can you tell me where the story of the Barmecides and their famed banquets is to be found?