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The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone; With Decorations
The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone With Decorations Author:Robert Dodsley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1769 Original Publisher: J. Dodsley Subjects: Art / Techniques / Drawing Fiction / Classics Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / Drawing Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism ... more »/ European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. THOUGH the Character of Mr. Shenjlone is too well known, and his reputation as a Writer too firmly eftablifhed, to require any further commendation, yet it may perhaps be expected that fome apology mould be made for this additional volume of his Works, containing Familiar Letters to fome of his moft intimate Friends. To thofe who may think fuch an apology requifite, it might be fufficient to fay, that the reception which the former volumes have met with, affords the ftrongeft reafon to believe that an addition to them would be very acceptable to the Public; and that the author's talent in fpiftolary writing appears not to have beeh a ? inferiorinferior to that which diftinguifties his other competitions. 10. But it may be objected,. that, wbat- tver their merit may be, 'Letters, net id- tended for the Public, ought not to be publiflied, and that an aft of this kind is a violation of private friendfliip. .' .-.. This objection, it muft be confeffed, carries with it fuch an air of delicacy, that the perfons here concerned are very willing to give it all due attention. At the fame time they cannot but obferve, that it will 'not hold in all cafes, and therefore muft unavoidably be fubjedl to fome limitations' -- that thefe limitations muft vary, ;1as the circqmftances of cafes happen to .....« less