
by Thomas Hardy
Excerpt from On Late Lyrics and Earlier With Many Other Verses School; even though, to use Wordsworth's observation in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, such readers may suppose that by the act of writing in verse an author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association that he not only thus apprises the reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully excluded. 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.
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