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It is not quite so disinterested a one as you may imagine , for it is a cheap way of
paying my debts for many an hour of enjoyment in health , and refreshment in
sickness ; and besides , I wish to show that alarming body of people , called “
some ...
It is not quite so disinterested a one as you may imagine , for it is a cheap way of
paying my debts for many an hour of enjoyment in health , and refreshment in
sickness ; and besides , I wish to show that alarming body of people , called “
some ...
Page 31
His grace , it is true , by favour of long standing , and of the carelesness or
ignorance of compilers , still keeps his place in those strange medleys of good
and bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any
thing of ...
His grace , it is true , by favour of long standing , and of the carelesness or
ignorance of compilers , still keeps his place in those strange medleys of good
and bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any
thing of ...
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... by the higher species of poetry . Among these is Hume , who compared a thing
called Wilkie ' s Epigoniad to Virgil , and who was much inclined , in compliment
to the rest of his French taste in literature , to call Shakspeare a barbarian .
... by the higher species of poetry . Among these is Hume , who compared a thing
called Wilkie ' s Epigoniad to Virgil , and who was much inclined , in compliment
to the rest of his French taste in literature , to call Shakspeare a barbarian .
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... of his kindred beauties , it is rather , perhaps , because he has written less ,
and is a man of less industry , than because he does not equal the latter in
genius . The allusion in the text is to his strange periodical publication , called the
Friend .
... of his kindred beauties , it is rather , perhaps , because he has written less ,
and is a man of less industry , than because he does not equal the latter in
genius . The allusion in the text is to his strange periodical publication , called the
Friend .
Page 87
Let the reader observe that I am not objecting to these subjects in behalf of that
cowardly self love falsely called sensibility , or merely be cause they are of what
is termed a distressing description , but because they are carried to an excess
that ...
Let the reader observe that I am not objecting to these subjects in behalf of that
cowardly self love falsely called sensibility , or merely be cause they are of what
is termed a distressing description , but because they are carried to an excess
that ...
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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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