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| | §27. The "Spectator" Group: John Philips; Broome and Fenton; Edmund (Rag) Smith; Hughes. VI. Lesser ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | As it is, the other two poems set men on the recovery of one of the greatest instruments of English versification; and, if he was the author of the Bacchanalian song printed with them, he gave some hints to the latest, and almost the best, of our practitioners in that cheerful kindThomas Love Peacock. |
 | | Why Pope, in commiserating his own ten whole years of collaborative translation, should have been more unkind to William Broome than to Elijah Fenton, when both were his collaborators, has not, I believe, been discovered: for jealousy of superior scholarship, the commonly imputed cause, would have applied to both. |
 | | He seems to have been a special admirer and follower of Drydens lyrical work, which he was even unwise enough sometimes to refashion, and he has succeeded in catching something, if not much, of that touch of the older magic which Drydens lyre could give forth. |
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