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... forgets that he must now be regarded as having entered his own road of pretension , and be criticised as a poet himself . The necessity is rather per- plexing to one who has been making so free with others , and who scarcely considers ...
... forgets that he must now be regarded as having entered his own road of pretension , and be criticised as a poet himself . The necessity is rather per- plexing to one who has been making so free with others , and who scarcely considers ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a draw- ing room heroine ; but what are the merits of its versification , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than ...
... forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a draw- ing room heroine ; but what are the merits of its versification , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than ...
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... forget it , is a strange kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or ...
... forget it , is a strange kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or ...
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... in the pathetic . Indeed , it is ob- servable , how inevitably his own taste leads him to forget the imitative turn of his versification , whenever he has to describe some particular scene , in which the affections are interested ; but 68.
... in the pathetic . Indeed , it is ob- servable , how inevitably his own taste leads him to forget the imitative turn of his versification , whenever he has to describe some particular scene , in which the affections are interested ; but 68.
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