The Poetical Works of John Pomfret: With the Life of the Author (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Pomfret

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ISBN 10: 026667299X ISBN 13: 9780266672999

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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17 will be to little purpose, the Author presumes, to offer any reasons why the following poems ap pear in public, for it is ten to one whether he gives the true, and if he does, it is much greater odds whether the gentle reader is so courteous as to be lieve him. He could tell the world, according to the laudable custom of Prefaces, that it was through the irresistible importunityof friends, or some other excuse of ancient renown, that he ventured them to the press 5 but he thought it much better to leave every man to guess for himself, and then he would be sure to satisfy himself; for, let what will be pretended, people are grown so'vety apt to fancy they are always in the right, that unless it hit thei humour, it is immediately condemned for a shan and hypocrisy.

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