The following Stanzas were principally written while perusing the Life of the Emperor Napoleon. If the work be possessed of any merit, I am convinced it will receive an adequate amount of support and if it be devoid of merit, I have no wish to screen it from the oblivion it deserves. Or fancy's fondness for the child she bears īut having taken on my own head the entire responsibility of this hasty appeal to the tribunal of the public, I shall cheerfully submit to its impartial verdict. “None but an author knows an author's cares, It would be absurd to deny that I have some anxiety about the fate of my “little booke,” which I now cast upon the waters: for. “Would it were worthier,” both for your sake and my own! Introduced by you into the agreeable haunts of the Muses, and indebted to you for any knowledge I may possess of the mechanical part of poetry, I have much pleasure in nominating you god-father to this the earliest offspring of my brain. Ever ready, as you have shewn yourself, to extend to me with cheerfulness both information and instruction, it becomes me to avail myself of the present opportunity of acknowledging the obligations I have received at your hands. In dedicating to you this little work, I feel I am but fulfilling a duty which your kindness has imposed upon me. Prepared from the print edition published by Daniel Lovett Welch Sydney 1843 95pp.Īll quotation marks are retained as data. The texts and images are not to be used for commercial purposes without permission
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