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Rh as an exquisite dainty to the wondering guests, In fact (dropping the silly metaphor) the reprints of those authors superintended by Sir E. Brydges have been, on the whole, such as to fully justify the imposing dogma of Dr. Johnson, "that they were sought after because they were scarce, and would not have become scarce had they been much esteemed ."—But there were other neglected writers in that era besides Nicholas Breton, Robert Greene, and