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LIVING VOICES

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO.,

CITY ROAD.

PREFACE.

I HAVE been requested to express the thanks of the Compiler of this volume to the many authors who have kindly granted her request to be allowed to publish selections from their works, and also to the other proprietors of the copyright of poems, who have accorded a similar favour.

I do not think they will have any reason to regret their kindness. It is of the very nature of such works as are here brought before us, that those who taste of their beauties in a judicious selection, are led to seek further acquaintance with the whole work, the fragments of which they have thus learned to appreciate. Moreover, Poets, of all men, are prodigal of their gifts; they pour forth their thoughts for the benefit of all classes of men, under a species of inspiration which scarcely allows them to suppose that they can have any monopoly in their sayings, and every poet feels that it is the

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