Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry / By Robert Bloomfield.

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry / By Robert Bloomfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the severe will be inclined to approve. But surely what I can say, or can be expected to say^ on subjects of country life, would gain little by the seriousness of a preacher, or by exhibiting falla- cious representations of what has long been termed Rural Innocence, The Poem of Good Tidings” is partially known to the world, but, as it was originally in- tended to assume its present appearance and size, I have gladly availed myself of an endeavour to improve it j and, from its present extended cir- culation, I trust it will be new to thousands. I anticipate some approbation from such readers as have been pleased with the Rural Tales 3” yet, though I will not falsify my own feelings by as- suming a diffidence which I do not conceive to be either manly or becoming, the conviction that some reputation is hazarded in a third attempt,” as impressed deeply on my mind,