Later Stuart tracts . with the beauties of Clar Obscur [Chiar obscuro]imbellish thy celebrated pieces, to the delight and astonisliment ofthe judicious multitude ! Adieu, persuasive Eloquence! The quaint Metaphor, thepoignant Irony, the proper Epithet, and the lively Simile are fledto Burleigh on the Hill! 380 Mock Condolence with Grub street. [ pLvfiv!juiyV7i^: histead of these, we shall have I know not what! ** The•Vide [William illiterate Will tell the rest with pleastire.* Fleetwood] ? St asaph^s^ ^ ^^^P^ ^^^^ jR^a^^r will excuse this digression, due, F^u^sl^tns]. by ^^y of condolence, to


Later Stuart tracts . with the beauties of Clar Obscur [Chiar obscuro]imbellish thy celebrated pieces, to the delight and astonisliment ofthe judicious multitude ! Adieu, persuasive Eloquence! The quaint Metaphor, thepoignant Irony, the proper Epithet, and the lively Simile are fledto Burleigh on the Hill! 380 Mock Condolence with Grub street. [ pLvfiv!juiyV7i^: histead of these, we shall have I know not what! ** The•Vide [William illiterate Will tell the rest with pleastire.* Fleetwood] ? St asaph^s^ ^ ^^^P^ ^^^^ jR^a^^r will excuse this digression, due, F^u^sl^tns]. by ^^y of condolence, to my worthy brethren ofGrub street, for the approaching barbarity that is likely tooverspread all its regions, by this oppressive and exorbitant tax[the Stamp duty]. It has been my good fortune to receivemy education there; and so long as I preserved some figureand rank among the Learned of that Society, I scorned to takemy degree either at Utrecht or Ley den, though I were offered itgratis by the Professors 38i


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