TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BRAYBROOKE. MY DEAR LORD, As my first attempts at poetical com position were encouraged by Mr. NEVILLE, your late excellent Father; and as several of the earliest pieces in this Miscellany were written at Billingbear, where I passed in your society many of the happiest hours of my life; to whom can I inscribe these productions with so much propriety, as to your Lordship, whose love and taste for Poetry, I have had so many opportunities to appreciate? |