ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS; Selected to enforce the Practice of Virtue, and to comprise in PRINTED FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT, PATERNOSTER ROW; By J. Swan, 76, Fleet Street 1804. M.CN THE Editor of this Collection has not much to say on the present occasion. Truth is seldom verbose: the truest things are most easily expressed in the shortest periods. POETRY is an Art of which no liberal or cultivated mind can, or ought to be, wholly ignorant. The pleasure which it gives, and indeed the necessity of knowing enough of it to mix in modern conversation, will evince the utility of the following Compilation, which offers, in a small compass, the very flower of English Poetry, and in which care has been taken to select not only such pieces as Innocence may read without a blush, but such as will even tend to strengthen that Innocence. A |