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Page 161
... verses , he gave these without a comment . As compensa- tion for all this uncertainty , Montagu records that in a letter sent to him Coleridge generously avowed that the ninth verse , by Southey , was " worth all the rest twice over ...
... verses , he gave these without a comment . As compensa- tion for all this uncertainty , Montagu records that in a letter sent to him Coleridge generously avowed that the ninth verse , by Southey , was " worth all the rest twice over ...
Page 162
... verse . Not that he could not write in metre , as Montagu would per- suade us , but that the best passages of ' The Devil's Walk ' are wholly out of the reach of Porson's con- ceptual capacity . He had a biting wit , which he exercised ...
... verse . Not that he could not write in metre , as Montagu would per- suade us , but that the best passages of ' The Devil's Walk ' are wholly out of the reach of Porson's con- ceptual capacity . He had a biting wit , which he exercised ...
Page 319
... Verse Prize of those years . They were , however , not successful , as in 1837 the prize poem was by A. P. Stanley ... verse quoted by B. H. D. is no doubt altered from one of Watts's Hymns , ' bk . i . hymn 88 , the first verse of which ...
... Verse Prize of those years . They were , however , not successful , as in 1837 the prize poem was by A. P. Stanley ... verse quoted by B. H. D. is no doubt altered from one of Watts's Hymns , ' bk . i . hymn 88 , the first verse of which ...
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