Before parting I must ask clemency for classing all my authors among _Poets_, that great word so deservedly sacred, and to which I bow with deep reverence; but the Parnassus of my Oracles has many steps, and I cannot but feel kindly towards those, who sit gracefully even on the lower platform, nor apprehend that they will do more than look up deferentially to the laurel-crowned worthies at its summit. Besides, it has been the character of my taste, or perhaps philosophy, whenever literally or figuratively I gather a wreath of flowers, to twine the wild blossom as heartily as the exotic, and even insert a weed, if its color or contrast lends beauty to the combination;--and thus with my Oracles. CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS QUOTED IN THE ORACLES. ENGLISH. AKENSIDE ADDISON BLOOMFIELD BOWRING BAYLEY BARBAULD BURNS BEATTIE BYRON BOWLES BAILLIE BARTON BROWNE BUTLER BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER CROLY COWPER CAREW COWLEY COLLINS CONGREVE CAMPBELL CHATTERTON CIBBER CUNNINGHAM COOK COLERIDGE CRABBE CORNWALL CUMBERLAND CHAUCER COLEMAN CLARK CHURCHILL CARRINGTON CRASHAW DRYDEN DARWIN ELLIOTT FERGUSON FALCONER GRAY GOLDSMITH GAY GISBORNE GRAHAME HOWITT HEMANS HOME HABINGTON HUNT HOGG HAYLEY HAMMOND HASTINGS HERBERT HOOD KING JAMES JOHNSON JONES JONSON KEATS KEMBLE LANDON LEE LAMB LYTTLETON MILLER MOTHERWELL MASSINGER MOORE MILTON MITFORD MORE MASON MURPHY MASSINGER MILMAN MONTGOMERY MACKENZIE MACAULAY MACNEIL MATURIN NORTON OSSIAN POLLOK POPE PRIOR POMFRET PERCY'S RELIQUES RAMSAY ROWE ROGERS ROSCOE SHELLEY SHAKSPEARE SOUTHEY SHERIDAN SPENSER SOTHEBY STERLING SHENSTONE SWIFT SCOTT SMITH SOMERVILLE TAYLOR, JOHN TENNENT THOMSON TIGHE TALFOURD TENNYSON TOBIN TAYLOR THOM VAUX WORDSWORTH WILSON WILLIAMS WHITE WOTTON WARTON WATTS WOLCOTT WEBSTER YOUNG AMERICAN. ALDRICH BRYANT BROOKS BULFINCH BENJAMIN BURLEIGH BANCROFT BRAINARD CHARLTON CLARK CAREY COXE CRANCH CHILD CRAFTS DANA, MRS. DAVIDSON, M. DANA, R. H. DRAKE DAWES DAVIDSON, L. DINNIES DICKSON DOANE EMBURY EMERSON ELLET FOLLEN FAIRFIELD FAY GALLAGHER GOULD GILMAN, S. GOODRICH GILMAN, C. GREENE HOLMES HILL HARVEY HALLECK HILLHOUSE HALE HOSMER HARRINGTON JAMES LEE LONGFELLOW LOWELL LEWIS LUNT MCLELLAN MORRIS MELLEN MOISE MILLER NEAL NOBLE NACK OSGOOD PERCIVAL PETERS PIERPONT PRENTICE PEABODY PIERSON PIKE PAYNE SMITH STREET SIMMS SARGENT SANDS SIGOURNEY SPRAGUE SCOTT TUCKERMAN WILLIS WHITTIER WARE, H. WELLS WELBY MRS. WARE WILDE WHITMAN WILCOX WOODWORTH The Game of the Oracles is composed of the following fourteen Questions, with sixty Answers each, numbered.