PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE; A DRAMATIC ROMANCE. IN TWO PARTS. BY HENRY TAYLOR, Esq. "Dramatica Poesis est veluti Historia spectabilis." BACON DE AUGMENTIS. PART I. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET, MDCCCXXXIV. ΤΟ ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. THIS Book, though it should travel far and wide Could feign his page dispers'd, should nowhere meet A friendlier censor than by Greta's side, A warmer welcome than at Skiddaw's feet. Unhappily infrequent in the land Is now the sage seclusion, the retreat Sacred to letters: but let this command Fitting acknowledgment,-that time and tide Saw never yet embellished with more grace Outward and inward, with more charms allied, With honours more attended, man or place, Than where by Greta's silver current sweet Learning still keeps one calm sequestered seat. |