The Port Folio, Volumes 1-2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1806 |
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... poetry seized on those points of Italian wit , called concetti ; and hence that deluge of elaborate trifling , in which the lover who is least understood , is es- teemed for having expressed himself well . Dramatic poetry had the same ...
... poetry seized on those points of Italian wit , called concetti ; and hence that deluge of elaborate trifling , in which the lover who is least understood , is es- teemed for having expressed himself well . Dramatic poetry had the same ...
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... poetry . But , exclaims the fas- tidious hunter after novelty , why fatigue your readers with the memoirs of an old divine , whose satires , like his sermons , are rumbling , quaint and austere ? To this cap- tiousness of objection it ...
... poetry . But , exclaims the fas- tidious hunter after novelty , why fatigue your readers with the memoirs of an old divine , whose satires , like his sermons , are rumbling , quaint and austere ? To this cap- tiousness of objection it ...
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... poet than as a divine ; though in the latter cha- racter he had great merit . His prose writings which are chiefly ... poetry , they only style of writing which was then fashion - wrote verses , and very often such verses able , they ...
... poet than as a divine ; though in the latter cha- racter he had great merit . His prose writings which are chiefly ... poetry , they only style of writing which was then fashion - wrote verses , and very often such verses able , they ...
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... Poetry , however , though it attains its highest perfection in a cultivated soil , grows perhaps as luxuriantly in a wild one . To poetry he was devoted from his earliest days , and about this time several of his poetical productions ...
... Poetry , however , though it attains its highest perfection in a cultivated soil , grows perhaps as luxuriantly in a wild one . To poetry he was devoted from his earliest days , and about this time several of his poetical productions ...
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... Poetry , as the vehicle pleasing THOSE arts which have comind instruction , as the pureft , preestest have ever been the subjects of admi- ration , and the unceasing themes of eulogy . Of these , none are more an- cient , none more ...
... Poetry , as the vehicle pleasing THOSE arts which have comind instruction , as the pureft , preestest have ever been the subjects of admi- ration , and the unceasing themes of eulogy . Of these , none are more an- cient , none more ...
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