The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 | Page 8

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Book the Fifth
285

THE MISSIONARY
295
Introduction
297
Canto First
298
Canto Second
309
Canto Third
318
Canto Fourth
330
Canto Fifth
339
Canto Sixth
344
Canto Seventh
350
Canton Eighth
359
_The Memoir and Critical Dissertation being unavoidably delayed, will
be prefixed to Vol. II._
PREFACE.
A Ninth Edition of the following Poems having been called for by the
public, the author is induced to say a few words, particularly
concerning those which, under the name of Sonnets, describe his
personal feelings.
They can be considered in no other light than as exhibiting occasional
reflections which naturally arose in his mind, chiefly during various
excursions, undertaken to relieve, at the time, depression of spirits.
They were, therefore, in general, suggested by the scenes before them;
and wherever such scenes appeared to harmonise with his disposition at

the moment, the sentiments were involuntarily prompted.
Numberless poetical trifles of the same kind have occurred to him,
when perhaps, in his solitary rambles, he has been "chewing the cud of
sweet and bitter fancy;" but they have been forgotten as he left the
places which