When I sate down to write this preface, it was my intention to have made it more comprehensive; but as all that I deem necessary is expressed, I will here detain the reader no longer what I have further to remark shall : be introduced by way of interlude, in some other part of these Volumes. * * See the end of Vol. II. Strange fits of passion I have known She dwelt among the untrodden ways Ere with cold beads of midnight dew |