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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... that there is but one thing happier than friendship , and nothing better than prin- ciple . Your's most sincerely , SURREY JAIL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was VIII DEDICATION .
... that there is but one thing happier than friendship , and nothing better than prin- ciple . Your's most sincerely , SURREY JAIL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was VIII DEDICATION .
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... thing for an author to baulk the humour of one of his passages . For the modern dramatists , as a body , it is almost needless in the present writer to express his contempt ; and some of them , even as men , deserve to be handled with ...
... thing for an author to baulk the humour of one of his passages . For the modern dramatists , as a body , it is almost needless in the present writer to express his contempt ; and some of them , even as men , deserve to be handled with ...
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... thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes , -a King ! 10 Apollo smil'd shrewdly , and bade him sit down With Well , Mr. Scott , you have manag'd the town ; Now pray , copy less , -have a little temerity , - -Try if you can't also ...
... thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes , -a King ! 10 Apollo smil'd shrewdly , and bade him sit down With Well , Mr. Scott , you have manag'd the town ; Now pray , copy less , -have a little temerity , - -Try if you can't also ...
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... thing I've always forgotten to mention , — Your versification , -pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play it's own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm ...
... thing I've always forgotten to mention , — Your versification , -pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play it's own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm ...
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... thing of scorn he describ'd it to be , But he said it was patient to heaven's decree : - Then he gaz'd upon nothing , and looking forlorn , Dropt a natural tear for that wild thing of scorn ! 19 Apollo half laughed betwixt anger and ...
... thing of scorn he describ'd it to be , But he said it was patient to heaven's decree : - Then he gaz'd upon nothing , and looking forlorn , Dropt a natural tear for that wild thing of scorn ! 19 Apollo half laughed betwixt anger and ...
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