A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

Note 969 — Chapter III · ENGLISH CRITICISM—1860-1900.

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This pearl of eighteenth century minor poetry occurs in the 7th (“The Wallflower”) of its author’s Fables of Flora (Chalmers, xvi. 447). I think Scott’s unequalled combination of memory and taste has used it somewhere as a motto.

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