Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment") as "a work of care and difficulty to the writer, which those only who have attempted this style of verse can appreciate; and naturally unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples...