Excerpt from La Bagatella, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Delineations of Home Scenery; A Descriptive Poem; In Two Parts; With Notes, Critical and Historical Pleased, and strongly impressed with such an idea, I examined, with some attention, the capabilities of my subject for poetic embellishment and I will freely acknowledge, that the first result of this examination was by no means flattering to my wishes. Not, how ever, to be diverted from my design, and not easily to be discouraged by difficulty, I turned over, in my re collection, the many admired poems, which had been produced from materials even more barren and un yielding than thofe, on which I had fallen and, thus animated, I resolved upon the prosecution of my design. 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.