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Excerpt from Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &C., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831
Claiming the right of an author to' borrow from' himself; he has adopted a few brief passages, with necessary alterations, from the Introductory Essays to the Christiani admin and the Chmtian Poet, compiled by him for Ma. Collins, of Glasgow. A few larger sections, but entirely new-modelled, have been taken from critical articles furnished by him to a respectable Review, between the years 1806 and 1815. The Retrospect of Literature, and the View of Modern English Literature.
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