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He has Longfellow's style very happily, including the dropping from a bright and sometimes a sublime line to one which is flat and commonplace, as for instance in the ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington.
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He critiques a poet's style, noting the contrast between sublime and commonplace lines, which reflects on the nature of poetic expression.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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