Excerpt from Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts; Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining; The Whole Being a Collection of the Best Pieces in Our Language It will be eafier to condemn a compilat this kind, than to prove its inutility. Young ladies are readers, and while their dians are follicitous that they {hall only re bell books, there can be no danger of a v this kind's being difagreeable. It offers, in fmall compafs, the very flower of our poet: that of a ltind adapted to the fest fuppofe. Its readers. Poetry is an art, which no lady can, or ought to be wholly ignorz The pleafure which it gives, and indeed cellity of knowing enough of it to mix i dern eonverfation, will evince the ufefulnefi defign; which is to fupply the highell moit innocent entertainment at the (mall pence; as the poems in this collection, lingly, would amount to ten times the p what I am able to afford the prefent. 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.