Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes As his Elegies have started few tears, so his Levities have produced little laughter. Like his friend Graves, he says, I will, I will be witty! But the power is absent. The utmost he ever attains is a kind of clever coarseness, which disgusts more than it delights. Yet we find from his letters that he had meditated several productions of the same sort; and he has left a list of the subjects on which he had intended to make himself, and, if possible, the world, merry - a list which produces no regret that the design was never ful filled. 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.