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I would rather take my idea of Thomson as a poet from this little production than
from all the rest of his works put together . There is more of invention in it more of
unassisted fancy and abstract enjoyment ; and in copying the simplicity together ...
I would rather take my idea of Thomson as a poet from this little production than
from all the rest of his works put together . There is more of invention in it more of
unassisted fancy and abstract enjoyment ; and in copying the simplicity together ...
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joyment ; and in copying the simplicity together with the quaintnesses of a great
poet , he became more natural , and really touched his subject with a more
original freshness , than when he had his style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since
Pope ...
joyment ; and in copying the simplicity together with the quaintnesses of a great
poet , he became more natural , and really touched his subject with a more
original freshness , than when he had his style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since
Pope ...
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... with occasional versions of twenty or thirty lines , of the Araucana of Alonzo d '
Ercilla , and in the same place is a translation of the three first Cantos of Dante ,
which , if far beneath the majestic simplicity of the original , is at least , for spirit as
...
... with occasional versions of twenty or thirty lines , of the Araucana of Alonzo d '
Ercilla , and in the same place is a translation of the three first Cantos of Dante ,
which , if far beneath the majestic simplicity of the original , is at least , for spirit as
...
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We demand not the copy of another ' s simplicity , but the simplicity of the speaker
himself ; we want an unaffected , cotemporaneous language , such as our ears
and our hearts shall equally recognise , and such as our own feelings would ...
We demand not the copy of another ' s simplicity , but the simplicity of the speaker
himself ; we want an unaffected , cotemporaneous language , such as our ears
and our hearts shall equally recognise , and such as our own feelings would ...
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independent than arrogant ; and there is a welltempered and strait - forward
simplicity about the military character of the field marshal , worthy of the great
cause to which his sword made an opening . The original line , therefore , such
as it is ...
independent than arrogant ; and there is a welltempered and strait - forward
simplicity about the military character of the field marshal , worthy of the great
cause to which his sword made an opening . The original line , therefore , such
as it is ...
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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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