Word: bucentor
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...sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp on his idea. Instances of this are the eighth line of "The Little Cares" and the close of the "Night of Winds." In Mr. Cutler's Dirge for the Bucentor" and "Abdominal Patriotism," he again exhibits the quizzical satirical turn with which he has several times enlivened the pages of the Advocate. Perhaps neither of these can be ranked with his happiest efforts, though the former, apart from "the bosomed hay," is neatly done. In the second he saw a good...
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