THE

FEAST OF THE POETS,

WITH NOTES,

AND

OTHER PIECES IN VERSE,

BY

LEIGH HUNT.

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Οια δ' όλον το μελαθρον εκας, εκας, οστις αλιτρος,
Και δη πε τα θύρετρα καλω ποδι Φοιβος αράσσει.

CALLIMACHUS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1815.

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DEDICATION.

TO THOMAS MITCHELL, ESQ.
Late Fellow of Sydney College, Cambridge.

MY DEAR MITCHELL,

ALLOW me to surprise you with a Dedication. It is not quite so disinterested a one as you may imagine, for it is a cheap way of paying my debts for many an hour of enjoyment in health, and refreshment in sickness; and besides, I wish to shew that alarming body of people, called “some persons," that the most unaccommodating