The feast of the poets, with notes, and other pieces in verse, by the editor of The Examiner. The dedication signed: Leigh HuntLondon, 1815 |
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... forgets that he must now be regarded as having entered his own road of pretension , and be criticised as a poet himself . The necessity is rather per- plexing to one who has been making so free with others , and who scarcely consi- ders ...
... forgets that he must now be regarded as having entered his own road of pretension , and be criticised as a poet himself . The necessity is rather per- plexing to one who has been making so free with others , and who scarcely consi- ders ...
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... names as they rose , But none were omitted , you'll eas'ly suppose , Whom Fancy has crown'd with one twig of the bay , From old father Chaucer to Collins and Gray . P I must'nt forget though , that Bob , like THE POETS . 19 %
... names as they rose , But none were omitted , you'll eas'ly suppose , Whom Fancy has crown'd with one twig of the bay , From old father Chaucer to Collins and Gray . P I must'nt forget though , that Bob , like THE POETS . 19 %
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Leigh Hunt. P I must'nt forget though , that Bob , like a gander , Would give " a great genius , " - one Mr. Landor ; 26 And Walter look'd up too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his , —one Mr. Rose : 27 But the God look'd ...
Leigh Hunt. P I must'nt forget though , that Bob , like a gander , Would give " a great genius , " - one Mr. Landor ; 26 And Walter look'd up too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his , —one Mr. Rose : 27 But the God look'd ...
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... forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a drawing- room heroine ; but what are the merits of it's versifi- cation , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than ...
... forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a drawing- room heroine ; but what are the merits of it's versifi- cation , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than ...
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... forget it , is a strange kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the -former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or ...
... forget it , is a strange kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the -former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or ...
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