COUNT JULIAN, AND OTHER POEMS. BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, 64, NEW BOND STREET. 1831. TO FRANCIS GEORGE HARE, ESQ. DEAR HARE, There are people who speak to many what they wish a single one in particular to hear: I am now speaking to a single one what I wish to be heard by many. It was at your persuasion, and through your attention, that I publisht my Imaginary Conversations; most of which, unless you had animated and excited me, would have remained for ever unfinisht. Accept this volume, which, if it has no other worth, at least enables me to make this acknowledgement of my regard for you. My works have been commended by you frequently. Be assured that your company has given me at least as much pleasure, and a pleasure, I hope, more often to be renewed. If the writings of your friend are ill received by the public, be consoled by having in your own family more persons distinguisht for literature than any other in England. To say nothing of yourself, (for you have some vanity, and I would not tickle it), your two brothers stand high among the ornaments of our Universities. Before them went your father, and your great-grandfather, the Shipleys, Sir W. Jones, and lately Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, the prudent and liberal man, the wise and witty, the convivial and inoffensive, |