BABBICOMBE, OR VISIONS OF MEMORY, WITH OTHER POEMS. BV MATTHEW
BRIDGES. PREFACE. THE longest of these poems was the result of some
solitary walks, in the vicinity of that beautiful spot, which has
furnished a title to the present volume. Saul the Son of Cis is a
composition slightly altered, which first saw the light in a very
early publication put forth by the author, under an assumed name,
nearly twenty years ago. The Italian Pieces were principally
written on the sites to which they allude during a continental tour
in 1821 and 1822. The reader is requested not to peruse the
narrative of Lesley, commencing page 50, until careful reference
shall have been made to an annotation at the end of the work. The
latter is essential to a due comprehen- sion of the story. It may
also be mentioned, that the illustrious university thereby
apparently incu pated, . is not the Oxford of our own times, but
rather of an age, which it is devoutly to be trusted has passed
away when the practical test of honour and orthodoxy was the
quantity of port wine, that could be imbibed in the
combination-room, without laying both body and soul ingloriously
table under the Whether Alma Mater may not have retained a few
traces of academical peculiarity, not to say theological subtlety,
arising perhaps from her former habits, is a question upon will be
entertained by different parties. which various conclusions
Whatever may be thought of the literary merits of the subsequent
sheets, there will probably exist little difference of opinion as
to their typographical beauty. Seldom in the provinces, and
especially at so great a distance from London, can the neatness and
accuracy of execution be surpassed, which are heredisplayed by the
respectable printer, for whose entire benefit this edition of
Babbicombe appears. Left by a severe domestic bereavement, to
struggle on in the world, with his desolate family, an appeal is
thus made with respectful confidence to the sympathy of a generous
public, which is rarely found to fail in effectually alleviating
sorrow, or supporting artistical skilfulness. Probably neither
writers, nor readers, can be better employed, as to the ordinary
affairs of this life, at the present crisis, than in endeavouring
to lessen the pressure of commercial difficulty, amongst our middle
classes constituting as they do the nucleus ofnational wealth, as
well as the best sources of its future preser- vation and
prosperity. Torquay, 2Mh January, 1842.
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