Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, · Diligenter intuere has nænias; Juv. Sat. i. L. 85. VOLUME THE FIRST. Phædr. LONDON: PRINTED BY G. STAFFORD, FOR J. DEIGHTON, OPPOSITE GRAY'S-INN-GATE, HOLBORN. 1794 TO THE READER. EPIGRAMMATIC POETRY has been so long read and admired, and the utility of compilations by such unequivocal testimonies acknowledged, that the DESIGN of the present Work needs no apology. In the EXECUTION of it, how far I have succeeded, it remains for you to determine. Convinced that your judgement is not to be biassed by prefatory panegyric, I will trespass upon your time and patience no longer than while I subscribe myself Your most humble Servant, THE EDITOR |
