THE FRAGMENTS OF EARLY LYRIC POETRY, WITH SPECIMENS OF ALL THE POETS INCLUDED IN MELEAGER'S GARLAND. BY J. H. MERIVALE ES F.S.A. ΗΜΙΣΥ ΜΕΥ ΨΥΧΗΣ ΕΤΙ ΤΟ ΠΝΕΟΝ. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN; AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1833. ADVERTISEMENT, IN giving to the world a new series of Translations grounded on a work published many years ago, to which I was a principal contributor, in partnership with my lamented friend, the late Rev. Robert Bland *, it will not perhaps be regarded as altogether superfluous to prefix a short notice relative to the former publication. * The Rev. Robert Bland, who was also author of "Edwy and Elgiva" and "Sir Everard," and of "The Four Slaves of Cythera," besides other poetical works, died, curate of Kenilworth, in 1825, when little more than forty years old, leaving a widow and several children to mourn his irreparable loss—a circumstance which I may be allowed to mention, as affording a motive to the present publication, in the hope of its proving a source of profit, however inconsiderable, intended to be applied exclusively in aid of the eldest son on his approaching removal to College from the Charter House. That, among other attainments of a more solid nature, my young friend inherits at least a portion of his father's talents in the art of versification, will, I trust, be made evident from a few pieces in the last division of the present volume, to which the signature R. B. is attached. |