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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... turning about , left the room in vexation , And Hook , they say , could'nt help mutt'ring Damnation ! ' ' Twas lucky for Colman he was'nt there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also , that ...
... turning about , left the room in vexation , And Hook , they say , could'nt help mutt'ring Damnation ! ' ' Twas lucky for Colman he was'nt there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also , that ...
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... turn'd from the rest without even a look ; For Coleridge had vex'd him long since , I suppose , IS By his idling , and gabbling , and muddling in prose ; 16 And Wordsworth , one day , made his very hairs bristle , By going and changing ...
... turn'd from the rest without even a look ; For Coleridge had vex'd him long since , I suppose , IS By his idling , and gabbling , and muddling in prose ; 16 And Wordsworth , one day , made his very hairs bristle , By going and changing ...
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... turning and smoothing his frown , Bade Southey take warning , and let him sit down ; But the rest of Bob's friends , too ambitious to flinch , Stood fixing their faces , and stirred not an inch ; While Sam , looking soft and politely ...
... turning and smoothing his frown , Bade Southey take warning , and let him sit down ; But the rest of Bob's friends , too ambitious to flinch , Stood fixing their faces , and stirred not an inch ; While Sam , looking soft and politely ...
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... turn'd pale , and suppress'd , With a death - bed sensation , a blasphemous jest . 2 3 . But Phoebus no sooner had gain'd his good ends , Than he put off his terrors , and rais'd up his friends , Who stood for a moment , entranc'd to ...
... turn'd pale , and suppress'd , With a death - bed sensation , a blasphemous jest . 2 3 . But Phoebus no sooner had gain'd his good ends , Than he put off his terrors , and rais'd up his friends , Who stood for a moment , entranc'd to ...
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... turn'd to whatever was racy and rare : The fish and the flesh , for example , were done , On account of their fineness , in flame from the sun ; The wines were all nectar of different smack , To which Muskat was nothing , nor Virginis ...
... turn'd to whatever was racy and rare : The fish and the flesh , for example , were done , On account of their fineness , in flame from the sun ; The wines were all nectar of different smack , To which Muskat was nothing , nor Virginis ...
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