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The stranger lost in transport stood,
Bereft of voice and pow'r

While she with equal wonder view'd
Sir Eldred of the Bower.

he Act directs, by JRoach Rue Court, oppofile the Pitt door of New drug
Theatre Royal, Jan, 30,1794.

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As o'er the barren rock she tean'd,
And vien'd the watry swell below.
She thus her pensive bosom straind,
With themes of recollected woe

LONDON

Rann

printed by & for JRoach Russell Court, oppofite the Pitt door of New Drury 1)

Price 6,4.

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SIR,

то

DAVID GARRICK, Esq.

is fcarcely poffible that any one fhould entertain a

IT is

more humble opinion of the following little Production, than fhe who prefents it to you. It is a trifle which, fhe confeffes, has but a very flender claim to your protection; but fhe confiders that your name will be an ornament to her book, as your friendship has been an honour to its author.

Where merit is inconteftible, and characters are decided by the concurring fuffrage of mankind, praife becomes almost impertinent. It is abfurd to be induftrious in proving truths fo felf-evident, that no one ever thought of controverting them.

I may be accufed of advancing a flartling propofition, when I declare that you are an enemy to the Mufes; but if it be allowed that defcription and invention are the very. foul of Poetry I fhall be juftified by the world in general, who conflantly behold you difplaying talents which cannot be described, and exhibiting excellencies which leave nothing to be imagined.

Vol. II. 7.

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Whatever

Whatever reafon I may find to regret my having ventu red thefe little Poems into the world, I fhall at least have no common pleasure in recollecting one circumftance attending them, fince they furnifh me with an occafion of affuring you with what efleem and admiration

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