Excerpt from Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes; Edited by Epes Sargent It has been our object to furnish an edition of the Com plete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers, in a form so hand some that everybody might be pleased to possess it, and so cheap that anybody might be able to buy. We have thrown together, in a prefatory memoir, such materials for the per sonal and literary life of the author as were within our reach; and, among them, we are sure that the admirable critiques of Mackintosh and J efi'ey will be considered as imparting additional value to the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.