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Title: An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; The
Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects

Author: Nathaniel Bloomfield

Release Date: March 13, 2004 [eBook #11564]

Language: English

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HONINGTON GREEN, A BALLAD; THE CULPRIT, AN ELEGY; AND OTHER POEMS, ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS***

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AN ESSAY ON WAR, IN BLANK VERSE;

HONINGTON GREEN, A BALLAD;

THE CULPRIT, AN ELEGY;

AND

OTHER POEMS, ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS:

BY

NATHANIEL BLOOMFIELD.

1803.

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[Transcriber's Note: The page headers in the original text contained
one-line summaries of what appears on that page within each poem. Due to
the difficulty of interleaving these lines without completely disrupting
the flow of the poetry, they have been collected and placed in a single
square-bracketed paragraph at the start of each poem, and separated by
em-dashes.]

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PREFACE.

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Whoever has read the Preface to the FARMER'S BOY will hardly fail of
recollecting the Name of NATHANIEL BLOOMFIELD; the Author of the POEMS
here offer'd to The Public.

It will be recollected that he there appears, with his Brother GEORGE
BLOOMFIELD, standing in the place of the Father, whom they had early
lost, to their younger Brother ROBERT.

It is natural to suppose that this brotherly interference, and it's
consequences, greatly and advantageously influenc'd the dispositions,
pursuits, and habits of thought and conduct, of all three of the
Brothers.--And it is the more exemplary when it is consider'd how young
the two eldest were at that time.

It is an encouraging instance how much may be effected for each other
by the poor and uneducated, if they