An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire of Auchinleck -- Addressed to the Rev. Dr. T. D. By the Rev. Samuel Martin |
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Anecdote and Biography unfold
A roll of what was done, and what was told
By Boswell, from his youth. With half his care,
Preserving what was good, and what was rare,
Another double quarto might be writ,
Fraught, too, with reason, fancy, mirth, and wit.
But see, our epitapho-epic sings,
With great examples, in the midst of things;
Epitomizing, in her narrow plan,
The striking, and the moral, of the man.
A roll of what was done, and what was told
By Boswell, from his youth. With half his care,
Preserving what was good, and what was rare,
Another double quarto might be writ,
Fraught, too, with reason, fancy, mirth, and wit.
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With great examples, in the midst of things;
Epitomizing, in her narrow plan,
The striking, and the moral, of the man.
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