transcripts for the press.

I need hardly add that, throughout the progress of the work, the advice
and direct assistance of Mr. John Murray and Mr. R. E. Prothero have
been always within my reach. They have my cordial thanks.

ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE.



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POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS.


Virginibus Puerisque Canto.

(Hor. Lib, 3. 'Ode 1'.)



The only Apology necessary to be adduced, in extenuation of any errors
in the following collection, is, that the Author has not yet completed
his nineteenth year.

December 23,1806.