THE DREAMER. EFFIGIES SACRE DIVUM- VISE ANTE OCULOS ASTARE JACENTIS IN SOMNIS. NEC SOPOR ILLUD ERAT; SED CORAM AGNOSCERE VELATASQUE COMAS, PRÆSENTIAQUE ORA VI- DEBAR. LONDON: Printed for W. OWEN, at Homer's Head, MDCCLIV, 270. f. 62. THE INTRODUCTION. T HE profeffed design of all our periodical writers, who are at present the chief ornaments of the ENGLISH nation, is to amuse, and inftruct the public; and fome of them, conscious of their fuperior abilities, have proceeded fo far, as to promise a cure for all the vices and follies of the age. I must do them the juftice to acknowledge, that they have left no fubject unattempted in any art or fcience. There are among them learned philofophers and profound divines, eloquent orators and excellent B |