OR A SELECT COLLECTION: OF ENGLISH SONGS. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON SONG-WRITING BY JOHN AIKIN, M. D. And ever, against eating cares, Married to immortal verse. MILTON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO., ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. 1810. ADVERTISEMENT. 9187 A292 مرح THE Editor of this volume published, in 1772, a work entitled " Essays on Songwriting, with a Collection of such English Songs as are most eminent for poetical merit." The Essays were four in number : one on Song-writing in general; and one on each of the three classes into which the Collection of Songs was distributed. The pieces in the collection itself were rather select than numerous; and principally served as exemplifications of the ideas inculcated in the Essays relative to the character and diversities of this kind of poetical compositions. The volume was honoured with a reception which produced a demand for a second edition in 1774. For many years past, this impression has also been exhausted, and copies a 2 742067 |