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...delivered to posterity as " a false guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...raving girl. Not long after, he wrote the Rape of the Loch, the most airy, the most ingenious, and the most delightful of all his compositions, occasioned...

...all vice, pronounces the lady to have been ' impatient, violent, and ungovernable ;' adding, ' that poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.' Yet this ardor of rebuke is thrown away : the moralist is fighting with a shadow : the poem contains...

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...poem, — consisting of five cantos, of about 150 lines each, — Dr. Johnson has pronounced it as " the most airy, the most ingenious, and the most delightful of all his compositions." Although the poem must be read throughout to be in any degree appreciated, the following extract, describing...

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...drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity, of treating suicide with respect ;" and that " poetry has not often been worse employed, than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl." She seems to have been driven to this desperate act by the violence and cruelty of her uncle and guardian,...

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