The Reliquary (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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But can it be possible, in an age which is styled liberal, enlightened, and philosophical, that any, whose enlarged views and cultivated intellect have done aught justly to entitle it to such epithets, will avow themselves indifferent to Poetry, and uninterested on behalf of those who labour in their vocation as its professed votaries? I own myself unwilling to admit, unable to believe the fact. Fewer volumes of Poems may issue from the press, and Poetry may not be so fashionable as it was fifteen or twenty years ago; but I have never met with even one instance of a person of refined taste, pure and correct feeling, and a cultivated mind, to whom Poetry was an Object of indifference, or by whom a genuine Poet, however humble, was regarded with apathy.

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