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The Ornamental Illustrations designed by H. Noel Humphreys1

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THE TRAVELLER

DEDICATION. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH.

DEDICATION.

TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH.

Dear Sir,

Dear Sir

I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts, which you decline giving with your own. But as a part of this poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland, the whole can now, with propriety, be only inscribed to you. It will also throw a light upon many parts of it, when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man who, despising fame and fortune, has retired 

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