The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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... 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 through the ...
... 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 through the ...
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... Walter look'd up , too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his - one Mr. Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look'd ... Scott , he said , " Pray be as portly And rich as you please , but a little less courtly . ” So , changing the ...
... Walter look'd up , too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his - one Mr. Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look'd ... Scott , he said , " Pray be as portly And rich as you please , but a little less courtly . ” So , changing the ...
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... Walter Scott's innate and trusting re- verence for thrones and dominations , the reader may find 61.
... Walter Scott's innate and trusting re- verence for thrones and dominations , the reader may find 61.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Walter Scott have outrun in popularity the coy loveliness of Gertrude of Wyoming - the first poem , in my mind , of any length , that has been produced in the present day . While I have been palled with the eternal sameness of Mr. Scott ...
... Walter Scott have outrun in popularity the coy loveliness of Gertrude of Wyoming - the first poem , in my mind , of any length , that has been produced in the present day . While I have been palled with the eternal sameness of Mr. Scott ...
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