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thought, a fertility of imagination, a beauty of versification, and a poetic grandeur which are very rarely to be met with even in poems of much less magnitude, but which are here sustained through twelve cantos. The interest of the poem never flags for a moment; and although it abounds in the most powerful descriptions, and scenes of the deepest pathos, yet there are no sudden transitions, no forced similes, or unnatural images, the author holding the even tenor of his way throughout the whole poem."-Literary Chronicle, No. 215.

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