-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. Sorrow is 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. 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. The pieces, collected under the head of Fugitive, are all that I thought susceptible of revision among those which I had published at distant periods through different channels. The reader may perhaps wish that their number were still fewer. Nos hæc novimus esse nihil. |