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of bards. I should place Rogers next in the living list (I value him more as the last of the best school) —Moore and Campbell both
third
—Southey and Wordsworth and Coleridge—the rest,
—thus:
There is a triangular
Gradus ad Parnassum
!—the names are too numerous for the base of the triangle. Poor Thurlow has gone wild about the poetry of Queen Bess's reign—