The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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... spirits , of charm to detain The wonder - eyed soul in their magic domain ; And never should poet , so gifted and rare , Pollute the bright Eden Jove gives to his care , But love the fair Virtue , for whom it is given , And keep the ...
... spirits , of charm to detain The wonder - eyed soul in their magic domain ; And never should poet , so gifted and rare , Pollute the bright Eden Jove gives to his care , But love the fair Virtue , for whom it is given , And keep the ...
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... spirit of French verse in general , to pronounce that Pope was the most harmo- nious of our poets : -the Italians repeated the story , most likely from that want of information with which critics are too apt to be satisfied when they ...
... spirit of French verse in general , to pronounce that Pope was the most harmo- nious of our poets : -the Italians repeated the story , most likely from that want of information with which critics are too apt to be satisfied when they ...
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... spirit . It is not generally known to the admirers of Al- fred , that there is a life of him extant , written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of Saint David's , whom he had in- vited to court from a ...
... spirit . It is not generally known to the admirers of Al- fred , that there is a life of him extant , written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of Saint David's , whom he had in- vited to court from a ...
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... 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 to per- petuate those solid parts of our character , which are the only real preservatives of ...
... 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 to per- petuate those solid parts of our character , which are the only real preservatives of ...
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... spirits of life , which made him look rather like a sickly foreigner who had got among us , than one of the native stock . The best part about him was his elegant scholarship . But , may I say that Mr. Sheridan , upon the whole ...
... spirits of life , which made him look rather like a sickly foreigner who had got among us , than one of the native stock . The best part about him was his elegant scholarship . But , may I say that Mr. Sheridan , upon the whole ...
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