ONE OF THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, ETt. SIR, — It is not my purpose, in this address, to run into the common tract of dedicators, and attempt a panegyric which would prove ungrateful to you, too arduous for me, and superfluous with regard to the world. To you it would prove ungrateful,… … be transmitted to future times as the British Maecenas ! Your example has recommended poetry, with the greatest grace, to the admiration of those who are engaged in the highest and most active scenes of life : and this, though confessedly the least considerable of those exalted qualities that…
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