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BEAUTIES

OF THE

BRITISH POETS.

1

OF THE

BRITISH POETS;

WITH

NOTICES,

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.

BY F. CAMPBELL, Esq.

"Amaranthine flowers."

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY RICHARD EDWARDS, 6, CRANE COURT,

FLEET STREET.

PREFACE.

THERE is no living language, which can boast so great a variety and so much true excellence in the productions of the Muse as our own; and at no period of our history have we possessed such a galaxy of varied talent, evinced in the poetry of the age, as at present; and never (with some few unfortunate exceptions) has the vigorous nerve and intellectual grasp of our bards, while throwing" the drapery of a moral imagination over our poor shivering nature," been more subservient to the interests of religion, or tended more effectually to promote the intellectual, as well as the moral happiness of the rising generation.

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We have, therefore, in the present selection of the BEAUTIES OF THE BRITISH POETS, given to the productions of our living authors, a larger space than is usually allotted to them in works of this nature, yet not to the exclusion of the writers of " the olden time." For it has been our aim to bring together all the principal pieces of acknowledged merit, and of intrinsic beauty, which have undergone the test of the severest criticism and examination, and have received the stamp of public appro

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