Excerpt from The Pilgrim of Beauty; The Cottager's Sabbath: And Other Poems, Now First Collected The Writer of the following pages is not an author by profession, nor has he the slightest hope of profit. In their publication. His experience justifies an opposite inference, and he is not disposed to quarrel with the judgment of the public. With a natural tendency to the exercise of the imagination, his avocations, from a very early age, have been of a most engrossing character 5 and the indulgence of his fancy has been allowed purely as a relaxation from labours that have never claimed so little as half of the twenty-four hours which compose the day. The weariness of bodily fatigue has been forgotten in the exercise of the mind, and the actual sorrows of life have been subdued by imaginary griefs. If perfection in the craft of authorship has not been attained, it is still a source of gratification that no duty of life has been neglected in its pursuit. 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.