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... The pieces it has already produ- ced in our language are , the Session of the writer than for himself in seeing it . Should the publi- cation go to press a second time , it shall be altered . PREFACE . Poets , by Sir John Suckling ; ...
... The pieces it has already produ- ced in our language are , the Session of the writer than for himself in seeing it . Should the publi- cation go to press a second time , it shall be altered . PREFACE . Poets , by Sir John Suckling ; ...
Page 70
... altered , to transfer the attractiveness of his style to the cause of virtue . But there always appeared to me , in the midst of that taste of his , a cordial and redeeming something a leaning after the better affections -- which showed ...
... altered , to transfer the attractiveness of his style to the cause of virtue . But there always appeared to me , in the midst of that taste of his , a cordial and redeeming something a leaning after the better affections -- which showed ...
Page 73
... which first infected their muse at last corrupted their manners , and being a jargon adapted to every sort of extreme , enabled them to change their free opinions for slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language 13 73.
... which first infected their muse at last corrupted their manners , and being a jargon adapted to every sort of extreme , enabled them to change their free opinions for slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language 13 73.
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With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language . Good opinion still lingered about some of them ; but latterly the very best have quite lost the bloom of their character , and ...
With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language . Good opinion still lingered about some of them ; but latterly the very best have quite lost the bloom of their character , and ...
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... alter them . It may be as well , however , to mention , that though Mr. Southey is represented as admitted where Mr. Wordsworth is not , it is not meant to insinuate that he is a better poet , but merely that he has not so abused the ...
... alter them . It may be as well , however , to mention , that though Mr. Southey is represented as admitted where Mr. Wordsworth is not , it is not meant to insinuate that he is a better poet , but merely that he has not so abused the ...
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