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Or9 the Feast of the Violets. 4
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Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.
_" And how go your other wing'd horses ? " quoth he : Then he asked after Margaret Gillies and Mee _, Seyffarth , Carpenter , Robertson , Barrett , and Sharp , The Corbaux , the Chalons ;—in short , more than his harp
Has strings to outnumber , or haste can disclose ; And looked at the _gall'ries , and _smil'd as they rose : For they all sat together , in colours so rare , They appear'd like a garden , enchanting the air ; But what pleas'd me hugely , he calFd to my wife , And said , _" You have done Shelley ' s mood to the life . "
At the sight of Miss Edgeworth , he said , " Here comes one , As sincere and as kind as lives under the sun ; Not poetical , eh ?—nor much giv ' n to insist On utilities not in utility ' s list ( Things , nevertheless , without which the large heart Of my world would but play a poor husk of a part )
But most truly , withm her own sphere , sympathetic , And that ' s no mean help tow ' rds the practic-poetic . Then , smiling , he said a most singular thing , — He thank'd her for making him " saving of string" !! But for fear she should fancy he didn ' t approve her in
Matters more weighty , prais d much her * Manoeuvring ; A book , which if aught could pierce craniums so dense , Might supply cunning folks with a little good sense . And her Irish ( he added ) poor souls ! so _impressM him , He knew not if most they amus'd , or distress'd him .
No fault had Miss Femer to find with her lot ; She was hail'd by the god as the " lauded of Scott . " " Mrs Gore . " Phoebus open'd his arms , with a face , In the gladness of which was the coming embrace . " For her satire , " he said , " wasn ' t evil , a bit ;
But as full of good heart , as of spirits and wit ;" Only somewhat he found , now and then , which dilated A little too much on the fashions it rated , And heaps of ' Polite Conversation' so true ,
That he , once , really _wish'd the three volumes were two ; But not when she dwelt upon daughters or mothers ; Ohf then the three made him quite long for three others ; And poor ' Mrs Armytage , ' warning exaction , Sits arm-chair'd for ever , a dread petrifaction .
that poet , particularly the one about the pilgrim . Lady Dacre is celebrated for her powers in sculpture , especially in animals . A horse , after a model of hers , full of grace and fire , is well known in the plaster-cast shops . The names which follow In the text are those of reigning female artists .
Or9 The Feast Of The Violets. 4
Or the Feast of the Violets . 4
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/39/
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