Elegiac Sonnets With Additional Sonnets and Other Poems

Excerpt from Elegiac Sonnets: With Additional Sonnets and Other Poems

Sir,

While I ask your protection for these Essays, I cannot deny having myself some esteem for them. Yet permit me to say, that did I not trust to your candour and sensibility, and hope they will plead for the errors your judgment must discover, I should never have availed myself of the liberty I have obtained that of dedicating these simple effusions to the greatest modern Master of that charming talent, in which I can never be more than a distant copyist.

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