; for, basking at his ease in the sunshine of public patronage, he feels that his heart is rendered invulnerable to your

    poisoned shafts

   . Read, and you shall find I have not been parsimonious of the means to grant you

    food

   and

    pleasure

   : errors there are, no doubt, and plenty of them, grammatical and typographical, all of which I might have corrected by an

    errata

   at the end of my volume; but I disdain the wish to rob you of your office, and have therefore left them just where I made them, without a single note to mark them out; for if all the

    thistles were rooted up

   , what would become of the

    asses?

   or of those

   Fully satisfied that swarms of

    literary blow flies

   will pounce upon the errors with delight, and, buzzing with the ecstasy of infernal joy, endeavour to hum their readers into a belief of the profundity of their critic erudition;—I shall nevertheless, with Churchill, laughingly exclaim—"Perish my muse"

   Bernard Blackmantle.

   Life's busy scene I sing! Its countenance, and form, and varied hue, drawn within the compass of the eye. No tedious voyage, or weary pilgrimage o'er burning deserts, or tempestuous seas, my progress marks, to trace great nature's sources to the fount, and bare her secrets to the common view.

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