The Poems of William Collins

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POEMS

OF

WILLIAM COLLINS.

WITH NOTES

SELECTED FROM THE EDITIONS

OF

LANGHORNE, AND MRS. BAR BAUL D,

AND ORIGINAL;

TOGETHER WITH

DR. JOHNSON'S LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM CROWE,

- PUBLIC ORATOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

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The Notes in the following pages are, first, those of the Author's Edition in 1746; these are without any signature : 30 likewise are the Notes'to the Ode on the Highland Superstitions, which are taken from the Edinburgh publication of that piece. The remaining Notes are either selected from the Editions of Langhorne and Mrs. Barbauld, or are original Notes of the present Editor ; and all these are distinguished by the initials of their respective names.