PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME. 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 *The Times, Jan. 9. 1841. |