Washington, Or Liberty Restored: A Poem, in Ten Books (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, May 16, 2017 - Poetry - 268 pages
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In respect-to the plan and nature of the poem, I! Have but little to observe. It will probably he remarked, as it has been of the Pharsalia, that its subject is too near my own times; be itso; the' enlightened reader will perceive an'endeavour' to. Remedy. That defeat and let him remember that humanlife is short, and had the validity of this objection been allowed the poem would never have been written. Some criticks will per-r haps object to the length of the episodes but' the same objection hasbeen-made to the best of' poets in the best of times. If malice, or iguo lance should suggest that the Americans were the enemies of my country, I positively deny the assertion. The American war. Was the was.

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