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As for the poets of Queen Anne's reign, it is enough to prove what a kennel standard of poetry was then established, that Swift's smutchy verses are not even yet excluded from the collections.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various