BY

CHARLOTTE SMITH.

THE FIFTH EDITION,

WITH ADDITIONAL SONNETS

AND OTHER POEMS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.

M.DCC.LXXXIX.

WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.

SIR,

WHILE I ask your protection for these

Effays, I cannot deny having myself some esteem for them. Yet permit me to say, that did I not truft to your candour and fenfibility, and hope they will plead for the errors your judgment must discover, I fhould never have availed myself of the liberty I have obtained that of dedicating thefe fimple effufions to the greatest modern Master of that charming talent, in which I can never be more than a distant copyist.

I am,

SIR,

Your most obedient and obliged fervant,

CHARLOTTE SMITH,