e a good character of Swift.
He was impressive, I think, though such lecturing could not well be very popular; and in some parts, if he were not poetical, he was picturesque.
He was nowhere obscure, nor were his sentences artificially constructed, though some of them, no doubt, savored of his peculiar manner.
June 2.—. . . . I dined at Kenyon's, with a literary party: Reed, the author of Italy; Dyce, the editor of Old Plays, whom I was very glad to see; H. N. Coleridge; and especially Talfourd, the author of Ion; with a few others.
Talfourd I was glad to see, but he disappointed me. He is no doubt a poet of genius, within certain limits, and a very hard-working, successful lawyer, but he is a little too fat, red-faced, and coarse in his appearance. . . . . He talks strikingly rather than soundly, defending Cato, for instance, as an admirable, poetical tragedy; and was a little too artificial and too brilliant, both in the structure and phraseology of his sentences and in the gen
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