Miscellanies . .is a 00 oo h > ft™ -a (U o .2 nj G>~ , J> s -3 ^ vO 0 Si pc; «s ;A= iJi fru,„ « »> r3 - g > * a § b « ^ atrw? s 5 „ £ 3~ u -o 8 ,cr-f -S •= « OS «- „ I & -K .5 .S S ° r ° £ ^ 0 ^-S < £ 2 a (£ « E IJ t S H 0 r -a co oa o <u co ~ c3 so .S 3. [ m 3 Oxford, May 12} 1746s. Mr. DodsleV,JOTHING which hath lately appeared in print, hathgiven me greater fatis faction than the fuperior merit of ourEnglifh authors to the French, which hath been fo ingeniouflyfupported in one or two of your Mufeums. After the perufal ofthem, the agreeable reflexion fo naturally refulti
Miscellanies . .is a 00 oo h > ft™ -a (U o .2 nj G>~ , J> s -3 ^ vO 0 Si pc; «s ;A= iJi fru,„ « »> r3 - g > * a § b « ^ atrw? s 5 „ £ 3~ u -o 8 ,cr-f -S •= « OS «- „ I & -K .5 .S S ° r ° £ ^ 0 ^-S < £ 2 a (£ « E IJ t S H 0 r -a co oa o <u co ~ c3 so .S 3. [ m 3 Oxford, May 12} 1746s. Mr. DodsleV,JOTHING which hath lately appeared in print, hathgiven me greater fatis faction than the fuperior merit of ourEnglifh authors to the French, which hath been fo ingeniouflyfupported in one or two of your Mufeums. After the perufal ofthem, the agreeable reflexion fo naturally refulting to an Englifti-man produced in me the following dream. Methought I wasconveyed into a large library, in which I heard a confufion ofFrench voices, which, by the frequent repetition of the wordMufeum with anger, I imagined to proceed from difcontent atyour late criticifms. Seeing however no perfon in the library, Iwas examining, with no fmall ailonimment, from whence thisuproar arofe ; and was not a little furprized, you may imagine,to find that each book had the faculty of expreffing itfelf for itsauthor. After I had tolerably reconciled myfelf to this unufualmanner of intercourfe, I found that I was not miftaken in my a The above letter was written at the time it
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