A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN SIX VOLUME S. BY SEVERAL HAND S. WITH NOTES. Dodsley, Robert LONDON: Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. MDCCLXXXII. TH is to preferve to the Public those poetical performances, which feemed to merit a longer remembrance than what would probably be fecured to them by the MANNER wherein they were originally published. This design was first fuggeited to the Editor, as it was afterwards conducted, by the opinions of fome Gentlemen, whofe names it would do him the highest honour to mention. He defires in this place alfo to make his acknowledgments to the Authors of feveral pieces. inferted in thefe Volumes, which were never before in print; and which, he is perfuaded, would be thought to add credit to the most judicious collection of this kind in our lanVOL. I. A guage. |