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There arebook51 certain foibles which can only be cured by shame and mortification and whether or not yours be of that species I shall have the comfort to thinkbook33 my best endeavours were used for your reformation. And you will do me the justice to believe that this public distinction is a testimony of my particular friendship and esteem. Such was the fate of a late ingenious author the Author of the Seasons who was so often put to the blush for the undeserved incense he had offered in the heat of an enthusiastic disposition misled by popular applause that he had resolved to retract in his last will all the encomiums which he had thus prematurely bestowed and stigmatise the unworthy by namea laudable scheme of poetical justice the execution of which was fatally prevented by untimely death.... read all
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