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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
"I woke, she fled, and day brought back my night."
Milton.
"See misery living, hope and pleasure dead."
Sir Brook Boothby.
"Death seems prepared, yet still delays to strike."
Thomas Warton.
I have been told that I have incurred blame for having used in this short composition, terms that have become obnoxious to certain persons. Such remarks are hardly worth notice; and it is very little my ambition to obtain the suffrage of those who suffer party prejudice to influence their taste; or of those who desire that because they have themselves done it, every one else should be willing to sell their best birth-rights, the liberty of thought, and of expressing thought, for the promise of a mess of pottage.
