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... manner . " McFingal , " the most popular of the writings of the former of these poets , first appeared in the year 1782. This pleasant satire on the adher- ents of Britain in those times may be pronounced a tolerably successful ...
... manner . " McFingal , " the most popular of the writings of the former of these poets , first appeared in the year 1782. This pleasant satire on the adher- ents of Britain in those times may be pronounced a tolerably successful ...
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... manner , whenever he permits it to appear , show him to have been well qualified . Humphreys was a poet of humbler pretensions . His writings , which were first collected in 1790 , are composed in a better taste than those of the two ...
... manner , whenever he permits it to appear , show him to have been well qualified . Humphreys was a poet of humbler pretensions . His writings , which were first collected in 1790 , are composed in a better taste than those of the two ...
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... manner excited in the public , is now over , and we can calmly estimate his merits and defects . He must be al- lowed to have possessed an active and fertile fancy . Even in the misty obscurity which often shrouds his conceptions , not ...
... manner excited in the public , is now over , and we can calmly estimate his merits and defects . He must be al- lowed to have possessed an active and fertile fancy . Even in the misty obscurity which often shrouds his conceptions , not ...
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