The Beauties of English Poesy, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Beauties of English Poesy, Vol. 1 of 2Have a more likening: mite than others, kw often led haters to labour after error, and to be firem¿: in promoting deformity, In this compilation I run. But few rifques of that kind, every poem here is well known, and or the public has) been long mifiaken, of peculiar merit every poem has, as Ariitotle exprefi'es it, a beginning, a middle, and an end, in which, however tri¿ing the rule may feem, moft of the poetry in our language is deficient: I claim no. Merit in the choice, as it was obvious, for in all languages the be¿: productions are moi't eafily found. As to the ibort introductory criticifms to each poem, they are rather defigned. For boys than men, for it will be feen that I declined all refinement, fatisfied with being obvious and fincere. In fhort, if this amufing in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.