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Chauncey Hare Townshend : [essays in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]

‘The Rydal Mount family...They were all hugely belly-ached with Townshend’s articles in Blackwood, which was almost as silly as the articles themselves. C. H. Townshend is a pretty man, with a pretty Lady, and divers little dogs, who has written some very sweet verses...but how, with his maidenly face, and his soft lisping voice, he could set up for a critical assassin – A Satyrist of the "reigning Vice", a writer of Tragedies of the Satanic school – it caps me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge      Print: Serial / periodical

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