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LINs, TnoNAs GRAY AND OLIVER GOLDSMITH with
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These volumes a continuation Of a series en-
braeing the standard British Poets, all edited and
published as above. We have formerly taken oc-
cason to speak in terms Of high commentator Of
the ability, care and good judgment displayed by
the editor in making these works as perfect as pos
sible, and Of the enterprise and good taste mani
tested by the well-known house from whence they
issued The volumes before US are ample proof
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and clear typography.
OF the merits Of the poetry therein contained
we need not speak. All who have read Collins
"Odes,'' Goldsmith's deserted village or who
have learned by heart Gray's 'Elegy in Coun-
try Churchyard and who has not done all these
---lsi-ise commentator win tine po-
eteil works Of Hood readers may be less ae-
quainteli but his sportiyc humor and his keen and
polished wit have endeared his name to thousands
while his "Song of the Shirt has become ''as IA
miiar as household words No post mortem
sculpture. will be necessary to perpetuaie these
names to the timo-if tina, period shall ever arrive
when English literature shall be buried in obliy-
ion.
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the Louisiana Legislature for six years from the 4th
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