Excerpt from The Edinburgh Literary Journal, or Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres: November, 1828 May, 1829 The brightness ofthe world, 0 thou once free, And always fair, rare land of courtesy! 0 Florence! With the Tuscan fields and hills. 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.