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hvd.32044086803988	Hardy, Philip Dixon, 1794?-1875,	Essays, And Sketches Of Irish Life And Character; Containing The Various Articles Which Appeared In The "wreath From The Emerald Isle"; With The Hermit Of The Lakes, Etc. Etc.	1827.0		.txt	text/plain	38416	1000	56	Even now, he assured me, on many a clear moonlight night, troops of them were frequently seen cantering down from the mountains on horses not bigger than hares, or sailing on the lakes in vessels made of cockle-shells; while at other times they would join together in the sportive dance on the beautiful green sward with which Mucruss and the surrounding islands were covered. This latter excellence, which is the very soul of poetry, and without which the term has no meaning, has, in many instances, been voluntarily abandoned by such men as Crabbe and Scott, and still more wantonly by Southey and Wordsworth, and the other flaccid Lake Poets, whose nerves seem completely relaxed by the influ- ence of a damp climate; and they have again courted a barbarism from which the roughness of a northern language had rendered it so very difficult to emerge.	cache/hvd.32044086803988.txt	txt/hvd.32044086803988.txt