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( 9 ) * Next came Walter Scott with a fine weighty face , For as soon as his visage
was seen in the place , The diners and barmaids all crowded to know him , And
thank him with smiles for that sweet pretty poem ! However , he scarcely had got ...
( 9 ) * Next came Walter Scott with a fine weighty face , For as soon as his visage
was seen in the place , The diners and barmaids all crowded to know him , And
thank him with smiles for that sweet pretty poem ! However , he scarcely had got ...
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I mustn ' t forget though , that Bob , like a gander , Would give “ a great genius " - -
one Mr . Landor ; ( 26 ) And Walter look ' d up , too , and begg ' d to propose A
particular friend of his one Mr . Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look ' d at Southey , and
...
I mustn ' t forget though , that Bob , like a gander , Would give “ a great genius " - -
one Mr . Landor ; ( 26 ) And Walter look ' d up , too , and begg ' d to propose A
particular friend of his one Mr . Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look ' d at Southey , and
...
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I may here , by the way , take notice of a strange piece of carelesness which has
escaped Mr . Walter Scott in his edition of Dryden , and which , unless he had
made eighteen volumes of it , might be construed into an ignorance of his author ;
at ...
I may here , by the way , take notice of a strange piece of carelesness which has
escaped Mr . Walter Scott in his edition of Dryden , and which , unless he had
made eighteen volumes of it , might be construed into an ignorance of his author ;
at ...
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... The crown of all triumph is freedom of mind . Of Mr . Walter Scott ' s innate and
trusting reverence for thrones and dominations , the reader may find specimens
61.
... The crown of all triumph is freedom of mind . Of Mr . Walter Scott ' s innate and
trusting reverence for thrones and dominations , the reader may find specimens
61.
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Of Mr . Walter Scott ' s poetry the estimate is sufficiently easy , and will now ,
perhaps , after the surfeit he has given us of it , be pretty generally acknowledged
. It is little more than a leap back into the dress and the diction of rude but
gorgeous ...
Of Mr . Walter Scott ' s poetry the estimate is sufficiently easy , and will now ,
perhaps , after the surfeit he has given us of it , be pretty generally acknowledged
. It is little more than a leap back into the dress and the diction of rude but
gorgeous ...
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| Title | The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Publisher | J. Cawthorn, 1814 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 157 pages |
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