“That there is pain and evil, is no rule
That I should make it greater, like a fool.”

—  Leigh Hunt

A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's "Choice", in The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, London: Edward Moxon, 1846, p. 147 https://books.google.it/books?id=t7VYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA147.

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English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859

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