Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spleen: And Other Poems
In confidering'fuch a fcale, it might be a quefiion whether the poet who ?ood at a medium height in all of the divifions, or he who was at the top in one or two, and near the bottom in the reit, were the 6ctter arti?; but it could be no queftion whether the latter or the former were the greater genita. Excellence in one point will ever deferve a praife.
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