Excerpt from Poems and Essays, Vol. 3 of 3Tats very great obligations which the Author of the following work is under to her generous and respectable Subscribers, cannot perhaps, be so gratefully and permanently acknowledged as in this volume. Having by the mercy of Providence at last accomplished the undertaking, she would con sider herself as unpardonably deficient, at the same time if she omitted to pay the most animated tribute -of thanks to one in particular - that dignified bene factor, to whom she had once the honour of dedi cating an early composition, and who now has patronised her present work in a manner so pecu liarly benevolent as the warmest and most sanguine expectation could never have aspired tol - That a Volume prepared with much study and attention, (delayed With so much concern, and encouraged with so much kindness and consideration), may at length be esteemed worthy - is the ardent wish of the author.contents.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.