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Person, and thus giving temptation to weak minds to sink this love and itself into Good Nature, yet still I disapprove the mood of mind in this wild poem so much less than I do the servile blind-worm, wrap-rascal scurf-coat of fear of the modern Saint (whose whole being is a lie, to themselves as well as to their brethren), that I should laugh with good conscience in watching a Saint of the new stamp, one of the first stars of our eleemonsynary advertisements, groaning in wind-pipe! and with the whites of his eyes upraised at the audacity of this poem!
Letter to C. A. Tulk 1818
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