PREFACE. AT this enlightened period, when Britain ran boast of a CowPER, a RoscoE, a ROGERS, a PINDAR, a HAYLEY, and a MRS. SMITH, whose works are in such high estimation, and known to every lover of Poetry, it is with the greatest diffidence the Author of the following trifles submits this volume to a numerous and respectable body of Subscribers, whose friendship has induced them to bestow on him praise for talents he cannot boast of; and on their account he ventures his feeble bark along the friendly coast, not daring, nor wishing, to launch into that dangerous sea Where fame is seldom won—and won, soon lost. Prevented by his humble birth from enjoying the benefits of an education which enables man |