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,

CHARLES SNART.

Newark, January 1, 1807.

CONTENTS

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THE FIRST VOLUME.

Fields of Fontenoy

THE Judgment of the Flowers

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Verses in Answer to a scurrilous Paper.. 4

from the English Chronicle

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6

Inscribed on the Wall of a Summer-house 18

Verses under a Bust of Comus

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Imitation of Horace, Lib. 1, Ode 19

Verses by Sir Henry Wotton

Epistle from Cotton to Isaac Walton....

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