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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... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , There has been such a doling and sameness , -by Jove , I'd as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love.3 However , of late as they've rous'd them ...
... Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , There has been such a doling and sameness , -by Jove , I'd as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love.3 However , of late as they've rous'd them ...
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... Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus modestly introduces himself : - When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in ; But a laureat peer had never been known ...
... Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus modestly introduces himself : - When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in ; But a laureat peer had never been known ...
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... Pope , Swift , and others , who affected to be conscientious rhymers ; and in fact , there was nothing in it to startle them ; for it appears by Johnson's Dictionary , that as late as fifty years back , the l in fault was not only dropt ...
... Pope , Swift , and others , who affected to be conscientious rhymers ; and in fact , there was nothing in it to startle them ; for it appears by Johnson's Dictionary , that as late as fifty years back , the l in fault was not only dropt ...
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... 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 . • J 3 But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of 26 NOTES ON THE.
... 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 . • J 3 But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of 26 NOTES ON THE.
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Leigh Hunt. J 3 But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloy- ing versification is not new ; but his successors have found ...
Leigh Hunt. J 3 But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses , half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloy- ing versification is not new ; but his successors have found ...
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