The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament-Integrity of Heart.

Believe me,

Sir,

Your obliged humble Servant,

Newark, January 1, 1807.

CHARLES SNART.

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CONTENTS

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THE FIRST VOLUME.

Impromptu on a Tax upon Spirits

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THE Judgment of the Flowers........

Verses in Answer to a scurrilous Paper.. 4

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from the English Chronicle

Fields of Fontenoy

Damon and Sylvia
Damon and Chloe

Hope ....

The Year

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Sonnet to Mrs. G.

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Epitaph on Dr. Johnson

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Inscribed on the Wall of a Summer-house 18

Imitation of Horace, Lib, 1, Ode 19....

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