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... familiar and fanciful , of which it appears so provocative , and which the present
trifle is an attempt to supply . The pieces it has already produced in our language
are , the Session of the PREFACE Poets , by Sir John Suckling ; another Sesa.
... familiar and fanciful , of which it appears so provocative , and which the present
trifle is an attempt to supply . The pieces it has already produced in our language
are , the Session of the PREFACE Poets , by Sir John Suckling ; another Sesa.
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Let the varieties , like all the other beauties of a poet , be perfectly unaffected : but
passion and fancy naturally speak a various language ; it is monotony and
uniformity alone that are out of nature . When Pope , in one of his happy couplets
...
Let the varieties , like all the other beauties of a poet , be perfectly unaffected : but
passion and fancy naturally speak a various language ; it is monotony and
uniformity alone that are out of nature . When Pope , in one of his happy couplets
...
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... by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly
provocative of elegant reflection and illustration ; and a compact , lively volume ,
written by one who was learned enough to enter into the language of his hero , of
taste ...
... by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly
provocative of elegant reflection and illustration ; and a compact , lively volume ,
written by one who was learned enough to enter into the language of his hero , of
taste ...
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into the language of his hero , of taste enough to relish his accomplishments ,
and of knowledge and spirit enough to apprehend the real greatness of his
character , would be a treasure to be laid up in the heart of every Englishman ,
and tend ...
into the language of his hero , of taste enough to relish his accomplishments ,
and of knowledge and spirit enough to apprehend the real greatness of his
character , would be a treasure to be laid up in the heart of every Englishman ,
and tend ...
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Yet even in his versification , he has contrived , by the colloquial turn of his
language , and his primitive mention of persons by their christian as well as
surname , to have an air of his own ; and , indeed , there is not a greater
mannerist in , the ...
Yet even in his versification , he has contrived , by the colloquial turn of his
language , and his primitive mention of persons by their christian as well as
surname , to have an air of his own ; and , indeed , there is not a greater
mannerist in , the ...
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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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