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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 16 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
ry in which had posts abound and "execrable doggerel" flourishes. If there ever was an occasion or a cause which was calculated to inspire the genuine post, it is the present occasion and the cause in which we are engaged. Yet what do we see? Bards we have enough, it is true, and rhymes by the bale. But what sort of hoards, and what sort of rhymes? For the first, if Apollo had not abandoned his seat on Mount Parnassus to Yankee tourists, and the chariot of the sun to Lord Ross and Sir John Herschel, he would most assuredly send a pestilence among these usurpers of his name. He did the same for a far less offence into the Greek camp before Troy. For the latter — the so-called poems — they may challenge all the doggerel that ever earned its authors a place in the Dunciad. They rhyme, it is true; but for one spark of fire, one scintillation of genius, one single though to elevate them above the dead level of the most commonplace prose, we have searched long, and searched in vain.