COLLECTION O F POE M S: WITH NOT E S, BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL, THE SEVENTH VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, RED LION PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. MDCCLXXXI. 280.0.747. A SELECT COLLECTION OF POEMS. ** HAVING met with a few sportive fallies on fubjects of national Satire, we have here thrown them together, not doubting but every liberal and ingenuous Mind will confider them as mere creatures of fancy, and not be influenced a moment to form a serious opinion of the People, who are the fubjects of them, from thefe Caricatures, where every feature is diftorted, and every blemish aggravated. On the contrary, he will confider thefe as profeffed mifreprefentations, where no part of the fubject is brought into view, but fuch as may produce burlefque, and excite ridicule. Under this qualification they may be fafely laughed at, and we may be entertained with the wit or humour of the writers, without adopting their prejudices, or being influenced by their invectives. VOL. VII. a A SA |