Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 11: May to August, 1847 In Crabbe's description, the great want is of selection. He writes inventories. He describes all that his eye 8008 with cold, stern, lingering aceu -he marks down all the itcmsot' wretchs ness, poverty, and vulgar sin-counts the rags of the mendi cant - and, as Hazlitt has it, describes a cottage like one who has entered it to dis train for rent. His cepies, consequent] would be as displeasing as their origins were it not that imagination is so much less vivid than eyesight, that we can endure in picture what we cannot in reality, and that our own minds, while reading, can cast that softening and ideal veil over disgusting oh jects which the poet himself has not sought, or has failed to do. Just as in viewing even the actual scene, we might have seen it through the medium of imaginative illu sion, so the same medium will more proba bly invest and beautify its transcript in the pages of the poet. 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.