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Présentation de l'éditeur
Few people read a Preface; and still fewer, if it be long. Not caring to offend such prejudice, this shall be short. But I would respectfully intimate that, to understand the design of the following pages, it will be necessary to peruse it. In a volume I published a year ago, entitled Poetry Sacred and Profane, were in- eluded some imitations of Wordsworth, together with a satire, called Pastimes with the late Poet Laureate. As an apology for the latter, I prefixed to the verse an I ntiroduction, containing a summary of the Poet scharacter. This gave serious offence to that inflated tribe of public censors, termed reviewers; and they castigated me unmercifully, one craving a stonebow, to hit me in the eye, or, in the event of failure, a scaffold on which I might expiate my crime. The Morning Post led the van; then followed Tait, Fraser, The Literary Gazette, The Critic, and a host of servile imitators amongst which appeared the Nottinghamshire Guardian, whose exploits on the occasion afforded no little amusement in this neighbourhood. I ts proprietor aspired but to an echo of the Morning Post; but none of the literary junto connected with the journal could furnish even that.
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