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Excerpt from Poems on Various Subjects
Kind to pursue tbe flowery patb of Science, be owns witb regret, tbat be can but peruse in bis native tongue ibe sacred pages of tbe immar to! Few, wbose works, like beacons, teacb tba modest Bard bow to avoid tbc rocks of Criticism; and is conscious bow mucb be stands beneatb tbe notice of tbe literary world, well knowing tbat tbose wbom be most esteems may vainly look for poetic beauties, or ?igbts of fancy, in tbis volume yet, wben, like tbe numerous offspring of beated imaginations, it may be lost in tbe stream of Oblivion, be will enjoy tbe pleasing re?ection, tbat not one sentence caused a blurb.
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