Excerpt from The Sentimental Sailor The Author of the following Poem, his imagination t iiiiil warm from a firfi reading of the Nouvelle Heloife, com gelled, in a manner, by the irrefifiible impulfe of awaken ed fenfibility, has prefumed to trace, though with a trem bling hand, a few of the firokes, equallybold and deli cate, of this celebrated writer. His theme is ST preux, ' paffiouate, vehement, tender, fentimental - making with Lord Anfon the tour of the globe, to recover his difirac ted mind by the view of the grandefl fight the eye of man can behold. - St Preux, full of. That noble elevation, R that fierte of foul; natural to a great charat'ter demefied by fortune, but not the lefs confcious of its worth - st Preux, lconfiautly purfiued by the image of his miflrefs, whom. He cannot renounce, -feeing nothing in the' univerfebut Eloifa, his.lofi, loll Eloifa. 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.