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Cowper had a melchomcally or sad disposition but wrote feeling
lines.
Child Harold is Cowper’s most famous work. This was the only
novel he ever wrote not being much of a novel writer. Robinson
Cruso was William Cowper.
Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy and Imitations on
Immortality.
Gibbon wrote a History of His travels in Italy. This was original.
Lord Byron was a great novelist. He also wrote a few poems.
Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man.
Coleridge has caused them much joy and pleasure as he has written a
large number of charming and illustrated works.
Thomas Hood wrote the Song of the Shirt a very laughable and prety
writing: About a lady riding.
Sir Walter Scott was the greatest poet Scotland ever produced his
principal work was ye banks and brays he also wrote a poem
entitled Ivan Hoe.
Sir Walter Scott ranked equal with any in point of genius as they did
in popularity.
Scott’s great powers of discription and makes his works appear as if
they happened all over again. Marmion is one example where the
rattling of the chains and so on are brought back to us again.
Marmion is a neatly written tale.
Marmion was a beautiful maiden who had many trials and
afflictions. It is filled with illusions to Nature.
Marmion was a story of country life described Marmion as a riding
forth to gain glory.
Kenilworth is a story nicely delivered of the literature of the day.
Scott was the author of Watts on the Mind.
Scott was great in prose, poetry and misfortune.
Macauleys was a great poet having been educated in a village he
then became an editor of an evening paper and among his best
works are the dock on the Stairs. Macauleys and Wittier are
compared because both labored for the good of mankind.
Lord Macauley was born in London at a time when there was the
greatest need to England of a good historian.

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