Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 1 of 2 Before I quit the subject of the engravings, Ishall here conclude all Ihave to remark upon them. The bust represented in the frontispiece, and which was executed while I was at Rome, possesses the recommendation of having been judged the best modern one, by an enlightened collector of a foreign royal family who, in consequence, obtained a cast of it a few years ago, in order to honour it with a place in his collection at Warsaw. The villa near Philadelphia, was built by me while I resided in America; as was like wise the house in Buckinghamshire seen in the same view as the pillar, since my return to England. 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.