Horace Smith

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1779-1849

Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 – 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous."
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Sir Guy Eveling's Dream

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Blood Works

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Interludes (Third Series) B...

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The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads ...

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The Midsummer Medley. A Ser...

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The poetical works, Vol. II

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A Treatise on the Law of Ne...

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Walter Colyton a tale of 1688

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“He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.”
Horace Smith

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