Excerpt from The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem, in Six Cantos

IT feems to be a kind of duty incumbent on thofe who devote themfelves to poetry, to raife, if pofi'rble, the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to \life and manners as the - limits of compofitioh, and the character of modern times, will allow. The ages, indeed, are paf't, in which the fong of the poet was idolized for its miraculous efi'efz's yet a poem, intended to promote the cultivation of good humour, may flill perhaps be fortunate enough.

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