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lady friends of Crabbe : Human Life, A Poem

'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: lady friends of Crabbe     Print: Book

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