DEDICATION. ΤΟ His Royal Highness THE PRINCE OF WALES. SIR, I acknowledge with gratitude the gracious permission accorded to me by your Royal Highness's Illustrious Parents, to offer to you the first Dedication of a Literary Work which, I believe, your Royal Highness has hitherto received. Although these Versions may be little b worthy of such distinguished and exalted Patronage, yet it is possible that by means of them your Royal Highness may be induced to direct a closer attention to the Works of a Poet, inferior to none of those great names which illustrate the literature of the Augustan Era,-Works which may be studied with delight and instruction by all classes, from whose pages Prince and - Subject, Rich and Poor, may derive lessons of cheerfulness and contentment, of patriotism and of virtue. The higher and graver lessons of Morality, as understood by a Christian community, are not, indeed, inculcated by our Author. He was a follower of the doctrines of Epicurus, both in principles and in practice; but that which the French term "La petite morale de la vie," is nowhere more agreeably taught, and many transcendent passages in the Works of Horace and his |