Socrates: A Dramatic Poem (Classic Reprint)

By Amyas Bushe

Excerpt from Socrates: A Dramatic Poem

S o c gar 3 through many ages has been kindly receiv ed by all perrons of virtue learning, and tafie your Lordfhip has already paid him particular marks of your regard in his prefent character and dreis; your approba tion of this dramatic poem, is my firongefl encourage ment to offer it to the public; mere amufement, and to fill up an interval of leifure and Tolitude, were, I con fefs, my firfl inducements to attempt this performance; I could not then think of making it public, tho' fome few friends of learning and judgment gave me their fa vourable opinion of it; but altho' this fomewhat grati fied my vanity, yet it was not a fuflicient motive to in duce me to a publication, without applying to, and fol liciting your Lordihip to perufe it, being well aifured, that if you thought it tolerable, Ihad not much to dread from any reader of candour and ingenuity: I was am bitions of 0 high a lanftica, and I am happy in the en joyment of'it-nbut your Lordihip's further indulgence to Socrates, in pointing at, and profcribing feveral inacr curacies, redundancies, and other infirmities of the work, and above all, in taking him under your protection, at a time when learning and virtue meet with fuck cold ho fpitality from the world, has in a great degree grafted this poem on the rich flock of your own high reputa.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0259213454
• ISBN13: 9780259213451
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"