Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Vol. 1 of 2: An Heroic Poem; With Notes and Occasional Illustrations
For writing the present work, I have no better excuse than idleness. I began the first Canto without any intention be yond the amusement Of the hour; but having In the course of the year met with two successive accidents, which de prived me Of the use Of my limbs for many months, I con tinned the occupation, to relieve the heavy tedium of con finement, and also to divert my thoughts from other more serious misfortunes, with an unusual share of which it was the will of Providence that I should at that time be visi ted.
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