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Pray have you to learn — and at this time of day , That your views on regard have
been all the wrong way ? One ten thousandth part of the words and the time That
you ' ve wasted on praises instead of your rhyme , Might have gained you a ...
Pray have you to learn — and at this time of day , That your views on regard have
been all the wrong way ? One ten thousandth part of the words and the time That
you ' ve wasted on praises instead of your rhyme , Might have gained you a ...
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I am only considering his versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to
say that I regard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent
practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less in proportion as the ...
I am only considering his versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to
say that I regard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent
practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less in proportion as the ...
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a venture , or to be studied with any direct view to imitation at all ; but because in
the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest specimens of
English versification , and such as with due regard to every man ' s own mode of
...
a venture , or to be studied with any direct view to imitation at all ; but because in
the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest specimens of
English versification , and such as with due regard to every man ' s own mode of
...
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The manner in which he has related those difficulties , in the interesting little
memoir prefixed to his Juvenal , is calculated to give his readers a regard for him
as well as respect ; and upon the whole , there is no living author , perhaps , who
...
The manner in which he has related those difficulties , in the interesting little
memoir prefixed to his Juvenal , is calculated to give his readers a regard for him
as well as respect ; and upon the whole , there is no living author , perhaps , who
...
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... to use a pithy and favourite mode of quotation , “ There ' s no such thing ! " *
Quarterly Review , No . 18 , p . 148 . † See a pleasant and manly filing at Mrs .
Robinson ' s " crutehes " in the Baviad , v . 28 . With regard to Mr . Gifford ' s
poetical ...
... to use a pithy and favourite mode of quotation , “ There ' s no such thing ! " *
Quarterly Review , No . 18 , p . 148 . † See a pleasant and manly filing at Mrs .
Robinson ' s " crutehes " in the Baviad , v . 28 . With regard to Mr . Gifford ' s
poetical ...
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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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