Gallery of Poetic Pictures: Comprising True Portraits and Fancy Sketches, Interspersed With Humorous, Moral and Solemn Pieces, Together With Historic, ... and Memories of the Past (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Gallery of Poetic Pictures: Comprising True Portraits and Fancy Sketches, Interspersed With Humorous, Moral and Solemn Pieces, Together With Historic, Patriotic, and Sentimental Poems, and Memories of the Past

It is usual for an author to inform his readers under what circumstances he has thought proper to appear before the public, in order that some sort of basis for opinion might be formed of the merit or demerit of his performance.

It is due to truth and candor to say, that the earlier productions of the author were not written with a view to their publication, and that many of his juvenile efforts have been entirely lost: and it was not until within a few years past, that the idea of publication was contemplated. At the instance and earnest solicitation of many kind friends, who had long professed partiality and favor for those fugitive pieces, as they occasionally appeared in the public prints of the day, he has consented to their compilation and revision, together with many more recent MS. pieces.

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