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I would not say more , lest my climax should lose ; Yet now I have mention ' d
those lamps of the Muse , I can ' t but observe what splendour they shed , When a
thought more than common came into his head : Then they leap ' d in their ...
I would not say more , lest my climax should lose ; Yet now I have mention ' d
those lamps of the Muse , I can ' t but observe what splendour they shed , When a
thought more than common came into his head : Then they leap ' d in their ...
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I must mention , however , that during the wine , The mem ' ry of Shakspeare was
toasted with nine ; When lo , as each poet was lifting his cup , A strain of invisible
music struck up :' Twas a mixture of all the most exquisite sounds To be heard ...
I must mention , however , that during the wine , The mem ' ry of Shakspeare was
toasted with nine ; When lo , as each poet was lifting his cup , A strain of invisible
music struck up :' Twas a mixture of all the most exquisite sounds To be heard ...
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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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His politics may be estimated at once by the simple fact , that of all the advocates
of Charles the Second , he is the least scrupulous in mentioning his crimes ,
because he is the least abashed . Other writers have paid decency the
compliment ...
His politics may be estimated at once by the simple fact , that of all the advocates
of Charles the Second , he is the least scrupulous in mentioning his crimes ,
because he is the least abashed . Other writers have paid decency the
compliment ...
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( 12 ) But there ' s one thing I ' ve always forgotten to mention , Your versification -
pray give it invention . Mr . Campbell seems to have hampered his better genius
between the versification of others and the struggle to express his own thoughts ...
( 12 ) But there ' s one thing I ' ve always forgotten to mention , Your versification -
pray give it invention . Mr . Campbell seems to have hampered his better genius
between the versification of others and the struggle to express his own thoughts ...
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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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