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The Brothers,

AND

OTHER POEMS.

C. Baldwin, Printer

New-Bridge Street, London.

THE BROTHERS,

W Monody;

AND

OTHER POEMS.

BY

CHARLES A. ELTON,

AUTHOR OF A TRANSLATION OF HESIOD,

AND OF

66 SPECIMENS OF THE CLASSIC POETS.

-so frequent Death,

Sorrow he more than causes-he confounds. YOUNG.

LONDON:

Printed for

BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

PREFACE.

I BELIEVE that the narrative form is not usual in monodies: but this is of little consequence. That mode is the best which best suits the writer's subject and design.

On the degree of significance attached to certain of the incidents, as in some measure partaking of a mysterious or ominous character, men will judge variously according to their various habits of mind. I lay no farther stress upon them than as they are facts. Sorrow is privileged in detecting intelligible indications, where indifferent persons discern only accidental coincidences. Poetry may employ as truth what the soberness of common-life feeling and the coldness of sceptical philosophy will discard as superstition.

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