Excerpt from The Works in Verse and Prose of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun. Esq., With Notes: To Which Are Prefixed, Sketches of His Life, Character and Writings Although the Prize Prologue will at once shew itself to be considerably improved, yet that poem, even as now printed, did not satisfy him. And Mr. Paine was resolved on further improvements. He had sketched with great boldness and felicity. The characters of the principal writers for the English stage. Of these characters, when to each be had assigned his proper features. And imparted to all something of that enthusiasm. Which the mere thought of Shakespeare and his successors was seen to kindle in his own bosom. He had deter mined to form a gallery of portraits. It is to be lamented, that this determination was forgotten almost as soon as made. Some additions are interwoven with the Invention of Letters; and similar emendations were projected for many of his other poems. But his latter years were dark and cheerless and he seems never to hate summoned his porters to an attempt, which he was not unwilling to contemplate, as feasible only to a sound and active health. 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.