Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dr. Holmes” in chapter 4, section c.4.41, page 380 of The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7.:
... of the Rejected Addresses, that if he had not been a witty man, he would have been a great man.
Hood's humor and drollery kept in the background the pathos and beauty of his sober productions; and Dr. Holmes , we suspect, might have ranked higher among a large class of readers than he now does had he never written his Ballad of the Oysterman,
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