Excerpt from Poems, Selected From the Manuscripts of the Late John Marriott: First Published With a Short Account of His Life, and Extracts From Some of His Letters The arrangement of the following co'llec'tion is, in fame meafure, arbitrary. D few of the au thor's juvenile produetions are placed in the beginning, and to fome of them his age and the date are prefixed; but both the/e are wanting to many of the pieces which were written in more advanced life; they are therefore clafled in [tech a manner that fubjet'tr of the fame tendency may be placed together, without much regard to the order of time in which they were written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.