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1790. Monthly Mag., I. 124. The first air, Sovra balze scoscese, sung by Signora Boschi, has many graceful, new, and pleasing passages in it, though the words are very rough and unlyrical.
1833. Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), I. 85. The genius of Wordsworth is essentially unlyrical.