Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759-01-01 edition. Excerpt: ... Art. 26. The Prisoner, or, Nature's Complaint to Justice. A Poem. By a Lady in Confinement. 4X0. 1 s. Cabe. This poem might have come with more propriety from a patient / in a mad-house, who had not been forbidden pen, ink, and paper. It h all distraction and incoherence, with a fruitless straining after poetical rant or expression. Whether this might be assumed to demonstrate the deplorable effects of confinement and indigence, or whether the real or imaginary imprison'd lady, has done her poetical foffible in this uncommon piece, is not easy to say with certainty. If* the latter be true, if the Writer ever had talents, and is in fact a prisoner, it must be affecting to observe, how strangely calamity may damp, how deplorably eclipse them! upon which supposition we would even recommend this twelve-penny performance to the compassion of the benevolent; and, as an uncommon instance of the bitter power of distress, to the curious. At the worst, the composition has the propriety of being, like the subject, miserable; and proving rather productive of melancholy than criticism, has only inclined us to join in the aspiration of many--" Remember the poor Prisoners." Art. 27. The Expedition, an Ode. To the tune of the British Grenadiers. Folio. 6 d. Taylor, in the Haymarket. Specimen. What happen'd more I cannot tell, let tears proclaim the rest. And Heav'n receive those grenadiers that perilh'd at St. Cas; Like soldiers brave theyfought, they dy'd, and prov'd their antient race, May those be d d that brought them there, I'll say it to their face. Religious and Controversial. Art. 28. A Letter from the Congregational Church at Saffron Walden, to their late Pastor; with his Answer to the same, &c. By Robert Dent. 8vo. 6 d. Wilkie...."
