Excerpt from Practical English Prosody and Versification, or Descriptions of the Different Species of English Verse: With Exercises in Scanning and Versification, Gradually Accommodated to the Various Capacities of Youth at Different Ages, and Calculated to Produce Correctness of Ear and Taste in Reading and Writing PoetryPreface. Xiii wish was impossible, for two reasons 1. Many of the pieces, from which I have made extracts, are anonymous; 2. It would have been treating an author very unfairly, to give, under his name, a garbled extract of a few lines, when (for the reason above mentioned) I had omitted some verses imme diately connected with them, which are perhaps.far superior to those that I quote, and without which, the passage must necessarily appear to very great disadvantage. Any author, whom I had thus mis represented, would, I presume, be far from pleased with me for taking such unjustifiable liberty with his writings and his name. So at least Ijudge from my own feelings: for, although I have occasionally inserted some extracts from poetic tries of my own, I should be very unwilling to set my name to them in that mutilated condition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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