Dear Sir Or Dear Madam Who Happen to Glance At This Title Page Printed Youll
PRAFACE THE book you're about to peruse has only one object,which is to amuse. If, as over its pages you may chanceto potter, you discover it's rather more pungent andhotter than this simple pretension might lead one tothink, recollect, if you please, there's a devil in ink;and a critic who starts without any intention to domore than recount, will find his apprehension of thepoets running on to minutely-limned pictures of themen as he sees them. Neither praises nor strictureswere in my design fo
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