Excerpt from The House of Brocklesby, and Other Poems: Dedicated to the Earl of Yarborough Men? Ages nearer our own time having partly separated thesister arts, music and poetry, and latter years having established music as a science of its own, this may, in some measure, have lowered poetry in the estimation of many; certain it is, a great portion of mankind do not make it their amusement, much more their study, treating it as frivolous and of no utility. On the other hand, it is a great consolation to know, wherever it has been found entitled to merit, and of a religious or good moral tendency, it has been cherished, patronised, admired. 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.