14 THE WORK S OF CHARLES LA M B. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, HIS LETTERS, AND A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. II. NEW-YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF.ST. 824 416 1849 V.2 n TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ. FORGIVE me, BURNEY, if to thee these late Thyself no common judge of books and men, My verse was offer'd to an older friend; The humbler prose has fallen to thy share: Those humorous clouds that flit o'er brightest days, I have not found a whiter soul than thine. |