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Excerpt from Coelia: Containing Twenty Sonnets Mr. Park, to whom I owe the transcript of the present rare work, observes that " Percy's Sonnets have scarcely any plea for reproduction except their rarity. They are void of natural thought, of pleasing sentiment, of graceful metre, or even of grammatical propriety; and too much resemble the exotic verbiage and crude metre of that worthless production called Southern s Diana, which Puttenham in his Art of Poesy fitly termed "mingle mangle;" and which Mr. Steevens in the European Magazine branded with strong derision. The brevity of Percy's work is it's chief recommendation. His Sonnets were imparted to the world as "toys" indeed, and as a pledge for the produce of a poem "more fruitful and ponderous:" but the pledge, it is very probable, was never redeemed." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.