Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Vol. 1 of 2
The Poem opens with a comparison between the beauty of remote objects in a landscape, and those ideal scenes of feli city which the imagination delights to contemplate. The in?u ence of anticipation upon the other passions is next delineated allusion is made to the well-known fiction in Pagan tra dition, that, when all the guardian deities of mankind aban doned the world, Hope alone was left consolations of this passion in situations of danger and distress. The sea man on his soldier marching into to the interesting adventures of Byron.
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