Excerpt from The Peasants Fate: A Rural Poem; With Miscellaneous Poems The character of this Poem is purely Eng-lid: the good sense of the present age having prevailed over ancient prepos. Session, in favour of far-fetched subjects, of the Arcadian cast, whieh'have to boast neither of nature nor truth. Shepherds and shepherdesses, in a state of perfea; happiness, bowers of un-fading bliss, and streams of inexhaustable pleasure, exist no 'ldnger, but in the wild vagaries of Im agination and the majority of mankind 'has become weary of following herthrough long labyrinths, which resemble passa. Ges that lead to A thomson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.