Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Pomfret: With the Life of the Author 17 will be to little purpose, the Author presumes, to offer any reasons why the following poems ap pear in public, for it is ten to one whether he gives the true, and if he does, it is much greater odds whether the gentle reader is so courteous as to be lieve him. He could tell the world, according to the laudable custom of Prefaces, that it was through the irresistible importunityof friends, or some other excuse of ancient renown, that he ...
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Pomfret: With the Life of the Author 17 will be to little purpose, the Author presumes, to offer any reasons why the following poems ap pear in public, for it is ten to one whether he gives the true, and if he does, it is much greater odds whether the gentle reader is so courteous as to be lieve him. He could tell the world, according to the laudable custom of Prefaces, that it was through the irresistible importunityof friends, or some other excuse of ancient renown, that he ventured them to the press 5 but he thought it much better to leave every man to guess for himself, and then he would be sure to satisfy himself; for, let what will be pretended, people are grown so'vety apt to fancy they are always in the right, that unless it hit thei humour, it is immediately condemned for a shan and hypocrisy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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