Excerpt from The Poetical Works of J. Armstrong, M. DAlong with fuch Qieces as he had formerly offered to the publick he takes this opportunity of prefenting it with feveral others, fame of which had lain by him many years; what he has loft, and efpecially what he has defiroyed, would probably enough have been better received by the great majority of readers than any thing he has publiihed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.