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Excerpt from The Prospect: And Other Poems
IN ushering forth this unworthy volume to the Public, it is necessary, by way of preface, in order that its merits or demerits be justly understood, to offer some apology. In the first place, it is the first production of a very young man unlettered, self taught, ignorant of every language except his na tive tongue, and even imperfect in that, as he is afraid the following production will too evidently.
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