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In an age like the present wherein literary merit of every kind so much abounds,
and is at the same time so much encouraged; many poetical performances which
deserve a longer remembrance than fugitive pieces usually meet with; are daily
thrown upon the public, and left to perish in oblivion. To select these from the
trifling productions of the day, has ever been considered as a useful employment:
and the favourable reception which Mr. Dodsley's elegant Collection of Poems
obtained from the public, is sufficient to encourage any person who has the means
in his power to continue that deservedly esteemed Miscellany. Several attempts of
this sort have been made, but non have acquired so much reputation as to render
the present undertaking useless or unnecessary. Ten years are now elapsed
The END of Vol. I.