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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 20: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
The intention of this preface is not to perfuadc man kind to enter into our quarrels, but to vindicate the au thor from being eenfured of taking any indecent liberty with a faculty he has the honour to be a member of. If the fatire may appear direeled at any particular perfon, it is at fneh only as are prefumed to be engaged in difho nourable confederacies for mean and mercenary ends, againft the dignity of their own profefiion. But if there be no fuch, then thefe eliaraeters are but imaginary, and by confequence ought to give nobod y offence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.