have advanced. however, that Inigo Jones, truly a great man, has affixed his name to the Banquetting-house; or that the Monument tells us who was its ingenious architect. I do not recollect, Author. Your supposition is just. Yet Horace has raised a monument more durable than brass, with the hopes of being known to posterity. That I may quote his words, he says, Exegi monumentum are perennius. In a word, my volition is fixed; and I have only to observe, that my Novel is neither particularly humorous, sentimental, terrific, nor epistolary, but a compound of these four essentials. 1 CONTENTS. |