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With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. With regard to Mr. Gifford's poetical claims , which I had nearly forgotten , he seems to have thought very justly , that the Juvenal required something better than the usual monotonous ...
With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. With regard to Mr. Gifford's poetical claims , which I had nearly forgotten , he seems to have thought very justly , that the Juvenal required something better than the usual monotonous ...
Page 76
... regard , and made us think of him with a pertinacious kindness . I will not answer , that my ideas of his poetry have not been of too high a description on this account , relying , as they did , on what appeared to be in- dicative of a ...
... regard , and made us think of him with a pertinacious kindness . I will not answer , that my ideas of his poetry have not been of too high a description on this account , relying , as they did , on what appeared to be in- dicative of a ...
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... regard to the language in which Mr. Wordsworth says that poetry should be written , his mistake seems to be this - that instead of al- lowing degrees and differences in what is poetical , he would have all poetry to be one and the same ...
... regard to the language in which Mr. Wordsworth says that poetry should be written , his mistake seems to be this - that instead of al- lowing degrees and differences in what is poetical , he would have all poetry to be one and the same ...
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... state to which this unfortunate genius was reduced by a petty Italian prince , the Duke of Ferrara , who , from some mysterious jea- lousy , chose to regard his morbid sensibility as madness , and Last , but not least , ( methinks I see ...
... state to which this unfortunate genius was reduced by a petty Italian prince , the Duke of Ferrara , who , from some mysterious jea- lousy , chose to regard his morbid sensibility as madness , and Last , but not least , ( methinks I see ...
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