The florid rich
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The florid rich,
first? phases of poetry,
as in the Oriental
poems, the Bible—Arabian Nights
Tales of the Genii,
Ossian, the Indians
of America, (Logan,)
—Song of Spring
from the Persian
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The florid rich,
first? phases of poetry,
as in the Oriental
poems, the Bible—Arabian Nights
Tales of the Genii,
Ossian, the Indians
of America, (Logan,)
—Song of Spring
from the Persian
The primitive poets, their [illegible]subjects,
their style, all assimilate.—Very ancient
poetry, of the Hebrew prophets, of Ossian, of the
Hindu fathers bar singers ^and extatics, ^of the Greeks states, of the American aborigines,
of the old ^Persians and Chinese, and the Scandinavian sagas, all resemble each other
