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The Augustan Reprint Society

JOHN OGILVIE

AN

ESSAY

ON THE

LYRIC POETRY

OF THE

ANCIENTS

(1762)

Introduction by
Wallace Jackson

PUBLICATION NUMBER 139
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University Of California, LosAngeles

1970

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

George Robert Guffey, University of California, LosAngeles

Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, LosAngeles

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

James L. Clifford, Columbia University

Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia

Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark MemorialLibrary

James Sutherland, University College, London

H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, LosAngeles

Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Roberta Medford, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

John Ogilvie (1733-1813), Presbyterian divine and author, was one ofa group of Scottish literary clergy and a fellow of the Edinburgh RoyalSociety. Chambers and Thomson print the following generous estimation ofhis work:

Of all his books, there is not one which, as a whole, can be expec
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