BY JOHN DYER, L.L.B. VIZ. I. GRONGAR HILL. II. The RUINS of ROME. III. The FLEECE, in Four Books. LONDON: Printed by JOHN HUGHS, For Meffrs. R. and J. DODSLEY, in Pallmall, 828 D996 1969 S. B. N. GB: 576, 02116.4 Republished in 1969 by Gregg International Publishers Limited Printed in offset by Franz Wolf, Heppenheim/Bergstrasse [iii] ADVERTISEMENT. MR. JOHN DYER was born in Carmarthenshire, and educated at Westminster school. His father, an attorney of great practice and reputation, intended to introduce this his second fon into his own business: but his genius led him a different way; befides his early taste for Poetry, he had a passion no less strong for the Arts of Design; and he determined to make Painting his profeffion. With this view he made the voyage of Italy, where befides the usual study of the remains of Antiquity, and the works of the great Masters, he frequently spent whole days in the country about Rome and Florence, sketching those pittoresque prospects with facility and fpirit. Images from hence naturally tranfported themfelves into his Poetical Compositions. The principal A 2 |
