Excerpt from The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem; In Six Cantos The following prod uetion owes its existence to an incident in real Jife, very similar to the principal action of the last canto; but in form ing the general plan of the work, it seemed to me absolutely necessary to introduce both the agency and the abode of spleen, notwithstand. Ing the difficulty and the hazard of attempting a subject so happily executed by the masterly pencil of Pepe. I considered his Cave 0] Spleen as a most exquisite cabinet pic'ture and, to avoid the servility of imitation, I de termined to sketch the mansion of this gloomy power on a much wider canvas happy, in deed, if the judgment of the public may enable me to exclaim with the honest vanity of the painter, who compared his own works to the divine productions of Raphael. 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.