Béranger

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. BlSRANGER'S PREFACE TO HIS EDITION OP 1833. In the very act of taking leave of the public, the acknowledgments which I owe it become more profoundly impressed upon my feelings; and the more vividly do I retrace all the tokens of interest that it has been heaping upon me, through a period of more...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. BlSRANGER'S PREFACE TO HIS EDITION OP 1833. In the very act of taking leave of the public, the acknowledgments which I owe it become more profoundly impressed upon my feelings; and the more vividly do I retrace all the tokens of interest that it has been heaping upon me, through a period of more than twenty years, since it first took cognizance of my name. Such, indeed, has been its good-will, that it rested only with myself to imbibe a false notion of the merit of my works. I have, however, always preferred attributing my popularity, dearly as I prize it, to the patriotic tendency of my sentiments, to the constancy of my opinions, and, I venture to add, to the disinterested zeal with which I have defended and propagated them. Let me then be permitted, in a quiet chit-chat, to account with this same public for certain circumstances and impressions peculiar to myself, and connected with the publication of the lyrics, that it has received with so much favor. The detail will be given in such familiar tone, that the public will, at least, therein discover what store I set by its approbation. And I must commence by speaking of this latest vojume. Each of my publications has been, for myself, the result of a most painful effort. This one alone has caused me more uneasiness than all the others put together. It is the last; and unfortunately it comes too late. It should have made its appearance368 APPENDIX. immediately after the Revolution of July: my humble mission was then ended. My publishers know why I was not permitted to bring the part I played to an earlier close; henceforward, it is wanting in the interest that, under the reign of legitimacy, it might have possessed. Many of the songs of this new collection belong to a period already long passed awa...