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In an age like the present, wherein the study of Poetry is so much
cultivated and encouraged; many poetical performances, whose merit might entitle
them to 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 frequently been esteemed an employment,
not unworthy the attention of our most eminent authors; and the favourable
reception the late Mr. Robert Dodsley's elegant Collection of Poems has obtained
from the public, is a sufficient motive to encourage a continuation of that
deservedly esteemed Miscellany. Some attempts of this kind have been already
made, but none with success enough to render the present undertaking useless or
unnecessary. Seventeen