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Does a poet string up trite sentiments in rhyme: he also becomes the great man
of the hour. How diminutive soever the object of admiration, each is followed by a
crowd of still nore diminutive admirers. The shout begins in his train, onward he ...
Does a poet string up trite sentiments in rhyme: he also becomes the great man
of the hour. How diminutive soever the object of admiration, each is followed by a
crowd of still nore diminutive admirers. The shout begins in his train, onward he ...
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... and a seventh fidgets round the stage with peculiar vivacity; that piece
therefore will succeed best where each has a proper opportunity of shining; the
actor's business is not so much to adapt himself to the poet, as the poet's to adapt
himself ...
... and a seventh fidgets round the stage with peculiar vivacity; that piece
therefore will succeed best where each has a proper opportunity of shining; the
actor's business is not so much to adapt himself to the poet, as the poet's to adapt
himself ...
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I FANCY the character of a poet is in every country the same, fond of enjoying the
present, careless of the future, his conversation that of a man of sense, his
actions those of a fool! of fortitude able to stand unmoved at the bursting of an ...
I FANCY the character of a poet is in every country the same, fond of enjoying the
present, careless of the future, his conversation that of a man of sense, his
actions those of a fool! of fortitude able to stand unmoved at the bursting of an ...
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To be sincere, were I to send you an account of the lives of the Western poets,
either ancient or modern, I fancy you would think me employed in collecting
materials for an history of human wretchedness. Homer is the first poet and
beggar of ...
To be sincere, were I to send you an account of the lives of the Western poets,
either ancient or modern, I fancy you would think me employed in collecting
materials for an history of human wretchedness. Homer is the first poet and
beggar of ...
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and you see the onner in which he leaves me to die / But the sufferings of the
poet in other countries is nothing when ... a state of precarious indigence, and
others literally died of hunger, At present the few poets of England no longer
depend.
and you see the onner in which he leaves me to die / But the sufferings of the
poet in other countries is nothing when ... a state of precarious indigence, and
others literally died of hunger, At present the few poets of England no longer
depend.
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