LAURA: OR SONNETS AND ELEGIAC QUATUORZAINS. Prais'd be the Poet who the SONNET's claim Shall venerate. E prese un Colle, dve le Schiere tutte ANNIB, CARO, VOL. I. OR AN ANTHOLOGY or SONNETS, (ON THE PETRARCAN MODEL,) AND ELEGIAC QUATUORZAINS: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Original and translated; Great part never before publisht. WITH A PREFACE, NOTES, AND INDE X. IN FIVE VOLUMES: VOL. I. BY CAPEL LOFFT. LONDON: Printed by R. & A. Taylor, Shoe-lane, FOR B. AND R. CROSBY AND CO., STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET. ΤΟ LAURA: OR A COLLECTION OF SONNETS. -CARMEN sequere, ut sibi quivis Speret idem, sudet multum, frustraque laboret THE COLLECTION here offer'd to the Public has been slowly form'd. It is twelve Years since it has commenc'd: and during that Period it has been no slight part of the Gratification of many happy and of the Solace of many anxious hours. If it produces any proportion of similar effects to any of my Readers, I shall have sufficient cause to be well content in having publisht it. That it may, I have reason to expect: when I consider not only the influence of POETRY in general, but that the shortness and the variety of these Compositions adapts them |