Item of the Day: Shenstone’s “An Opinion of Ghosts” (1764)

Full Title: The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed. In Two Volumes, with Decorations. Vol. II. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, MDCCLXIV.
AN OPINION OF GHOSTS.
IT is remarkable how much the belief of ghosts and apparitions of persons departed, has lost ground [...]