Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

part is the date of the place from whence this preface was written--he

triumphantly closes his labours in the confinement of Cambridge Castle for debt!

Ockley, lamenting his small proficiency in the Persian studies, resolves to attain to them--

"How often have I endeavoured to perfect myself in that language, but my malignant and envious stars still frustrated my at...