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 those whom he deemed most worthy of his praise, are alike manifested in the 86th sonnet.

In Spencer indeed, we trace a mind constitutionally tender, delicate, and, in comparison with his three great compeers, I had almost said, effeminate; and this additionally saddened by the unjust persecution of Burleigh,