"SATIRE is the Poetry of a Nation highly polished." History of English Poetry, Vol. 3. Chapter the last, LONDON: PRINTED AND SOLD BY JAQUES AND CO. LOMBARD-STREET, FLEET-STREET. 1801. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Publisher of this volume is induced to hope that it will be agreeable and acceptable to the public, as many of the compositions in it are either entirely out of print, or not to be found except in large collections of miscellaneous writings. The Publisher is not acquainted with any book formed on the same plan with the present collection. October 1801. BODLEIM 2 FEB 1948 LIBRARY ( v ) AN Heroic Epiftle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of His Majesty's Works, and Author of a late Disser- III. First printed in 1774. The Imperial Epistle from Kien Long, Emperor of China, to George the Third, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. in the year 1794. Translated into English Verse from the original Chinese Poetry. With Notes by various Persons of Eminence, and by the Translator. By the Author of the Pursuits of Lite- V. |