the septic creation

POEM on various subjects written at different times and prompted by very different feeling but which will be read at one time and under the influence of one fet of feelings - this is an heavy difadvantage: for we love OR admire a poet in proportion as he developes our on fentiments and emotions, OR reminds us of our own knowledge.

Compofitions refembling thofe of the prefent volume are not unfrequently condemned for their querulous egotifm. but egotifm is to be condemned then only when it offends againft and place, as in an hiftory OR an apic poem.