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AUTHOR OF CATILINE, A TRAGEDY;" " PARIS IN 1815," ETC.

"Here from the mould to conscious being start
Those finer forms, the miracles of art;

Here chosen Gems, imprest on sulphur, shine,
That slept for ages in a second mine.".

ROGERS.

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Dedicated

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR CHARLES LONG, G. C. B.

ETC. ETC. ETC.

AND TO

LADY LONG.

PERSUADED that a general knowledge of the principles on which excellence in the Fine Arts is founded will best lead to their successful practice, and to the encouragement of their professors, I am highly gratified by the permission to inscribe this little volume with names so well calculated to recommend it, and the cause it endeavours to advance, to public notice, as those of Sir CHARLES and Lady LONG.