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PREFACE.

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OST perfons in the early feafon of their lives, have a relish for the beauties of poetry; free from the fordid and inordinate love of felf, and uncorrupted by the vices and follies of an alluring world, they are most commonly captivated by thofe animating defcriptions which a warm and lively fancy draws from the bofom of nature, and prefents to them. in the pure unfullied garb of chastity and innocence. In fome measure to direct this tafte to proper objects, this felection will confift of fuch pieces only as in the judgment of the Editor, have a tendency to animate the hearts of those

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who read them with a love of virtue and of honour: to awaken the most tender fenfations in the human breast; to inculcate fentiments of philanthropy; and to elevate the mind with love and gratitude to Him from whom every good and benevolent affection derives its exiftence, and who alone enlightens the understanding with every really beautiful and ufeful idea, thereby rendering it fubfervient to the great end of creation the true happinefs of all his

creatures.

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