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Page 37
But these corrections are made by the critic , upon a supposition that his author
must have infallibly written what was best . The reader will recollect that these
lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton ' s ear
profited by ...
But these corrections are made by the critic , upon a supposition that his author
must have infallibly written what was best . The reader will recollect that these
lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton ' s ear
profited by ...
Page 40
The unambitious balladmeasure in which it is written , has not only had a
particular time and tune annexed to it from time immemorial , so as to be led off
like a kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown
into two ...
The unambitious balladmeasure in which it is written , has not only had a
particular time and tune annexed to it from time immemorial , so as to be led off
like a kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown
into two ...
Page 42
As the present notes are written for the poem to which they belong , not the poem
for the notes , it is high time to finish the one before me ; otherwise I was much
tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from ...
As the present notes are written for the poem to which they belong , not the poem
for the notes , it is high time to finish the one before me ; otherwise I was much
tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from ...
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... also , to make despair itself patient , and to convert it into an invincible spirit . It
is not generally known to the admirers of Alfred , that there is a life of him extant ,
written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of ...
... also , to make despair itself patient , and to convert it into an invincible spirit . It
is not generally known to the admirers of Alfred , that there is a life of him extant ,
written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of ...
Page 45
The substance of Asser is contained in the fourth and fifth books of Mr . Turner ' s
History of the Anglo - Saxons , where the reader will find a more copious and
interesting account of Alfred , though written in a singular style , than in any other
...
The substance of Asser is contained in the fourth and fifth books of Mr . Turner ' s
History of the Anglo - Saxons , where the reader will find a more copious and
interesting account of Alfred , though written in a singular style , than in any other
...
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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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