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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of George Crabbe
It was then, as I have said, the truthfulness of his pictures that at once stamped him as a man of genius, and has created him a fame which will last as long as poverty and truth endure. N 0 poetry has less ornament sometimes, indeed, it is mean and prosaic, but it always maintains its influence by its truthfulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.