THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS MOORE

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WITH A MEMOIR

SIX VOLUMES IN THREE

VOL. II.

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press.

1878.

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COPYRIGHT, 1856,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, & CO

[A more particular Index will be found at the end of the

Third Volume.]

PREFACE.

IN one of those Notices, no less friendly than they are able and spirited, which this new Edition of my Poetical Works has called forth from a leading political journal, I find, in reference to the numerous satirical pieces contained in these volumes, the following suggestion: "It is now more than a quarter of a century since this bundle of political pasquinades set the British public in a roar; and, though the events to which they allude may be well known to every reader,

*

Cujus octavum trepidavit ætas
Claudere lustrum,'

there are many persons, now forming a part of the literary public, who have come into existence since they happened, and who cannot be expected, even if they had the leisure and opportunity to rummage the files of our old newspapers for a history of the perishable facts, on which Mr. Moore has so often

VOL. III.

*The Times, Jan. 9, 1841.
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