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Page 94
... poet degrades him ; if an indifferent one , bur- lesques him ; and if a bad one , renders both prince and poet execrable . The truth of this is so manifest to common sense that Mr. Gibbon , with some hope perhaps of success , took the ...
... poet degrades him ; if an indifferent one , bur- lesques him ; and if a bad one , renders both prince and poet execrable . The truth of this is so manifest to common sense that Mr. Gibbon , with some hope perhaps of success , took the ...
Page 489
... poet , " bestowed by the " Collections , " on such writers as Addison , Swift , and others ( great men in their way , but not poets ) , who have set their wits to the decrying of music . It may be answered with confidence , that there ...
... poet , " bestowed by the " Collections , " on such writers as Addison , Swift , and others ( great men in their way , but not poets ) , who have set their wits to the decrying of music . It may be answered with confidence , that there ...
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... poet , moreover , are here stated to be " fancy , imagination , expression , thought , knowledge , and music " ; and in the essay " What is Poetry ? " prefaced to Imagination and Fancy , Hunt declares : " He who has thought , feeling ...
... poet , moreover , are here stated to be " fancy , imagination , expression , thought , knowledge , and music " ; and in the essay " What is Poetry ? " prefaced to Imagination and Fancy , Hunt declares : " He who has thought , feeling ...
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LEIGH HUNT AS MAN OF LETTERS | 3 |
ON THE NEWYEARS ODE | 90 |
THE LATE MR SHERIDAN | 103 |
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