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| | §25. William Sotheby; John Abraham Heraud; Robert Pollok; Robert Montgomery. V. Lesser Poets, 17901837. Vol. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | In fact, if anyone cared to do so, it would be as easy as it would be cruel and unnecessary to treat Pollok as Macaulay treated his immediate successor, Robert Montgomery (born Gomery). |
 | | There are passages in both Pollok and Montgomery which a hasty, forgetful, or, perhaps, actually not very well-read person might take for poetry. |
 | | But, in no case will any real originality, either of substance or of expression, be found; nor is there, in either versifier, the slightest approach to that technical excellence which, whether it be ever a supreme positive quality or not, certainly covers a multitude of minor defects. |
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