Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 1 of 2
This Preface is not defigned to commend the Poems t0owhich it is prefixed. My tefiimony would be infutficient for thofe who are not qua lified to judge properly for themfelves, and unne cetl'ary to thofe who are. Befides, the reafons which render it improper and unfeemly for a man to celebrate his own'performances, or thofe of his nearefi relatives, will have fome in?uence in fupprefiing much of what he might otherwife with tofay in favour of a friend, when that friend is indeed an alter idem, and excites almoft the fame emotions of fenfibility and afi'eetion as he feels for himfelf.
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