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Page 296
... poet once forsakes the paths of simplicity and nature , and seeks to gain attention either by an affected imitation of the old writers or by following his own crude notions of originality , we may safely pronounce that it is impossible ...
... poet once forsakes the paths of simplicity and nature , and seeks to gain attention either by an affected imitation of the old writers or by following his own crude notions of originality , we may safely pronounce that it is impossible ...
Page 396
... poet . We do not reap so much instruc- tion , perhaps , from a poetic editor , but we receive more plea- sure ; and we cannot regard this as altogether a despicable consideration , in perusing a work of seven volumes , extending from ...
... poet . We do not reap so much instruc- tion , perhaps , from a poetic editor , but we receive more plea- sure ; and we cannot regard this as altogether a despicable consideration , in perusing a work of seven volumes , extending from ...
Page 407
... poet ; of one who has rather too much genius and impatience to sit down steadily to his task , and whose historic muse , like the lyric , has been often too capricious to obey him . On the whole , however , he has completed his design ...
... poet ; of one who has rather too much genius and impatience to sit down steadily to his task , and whose historic muse , like the lyric , has been often too capricious to obey him . On the whole , however , he has completed his design ...
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