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THOMAS MOORE.-1779-1852.

LALLA ROOKH appeared in 1817, and in it the world found a poem sui generis: and they were not slow in showing their appreciation of it. It was in every one's hands-upon every one's lips. Learned men and Oriental travellers bore testimony, not only to its historical correctness, but to the fidelity and beauty of its scenic descriptions. The original went through seven editions within a year, found its way through the world, and was soon translated into every language. "There are,” said Jeffrey, in the Edinburgh Review, passages, indeed, and these neither few nor brief, over which the very genius of poetry seems to have breathed his richest enchantment-where the melody of the verse and the beauty of the images conspire so harmoniously with the force and tenderness of the emotion, that the whole is blended into one deep and bright stream of sweetness and feeling, along which the spirit of the reader is borne passively away through long reaches of delight.'

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