The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CLXVII.
[While Johnson the Lives of our Poets compos'd]
PLUS ULTRA.
While Johnson the Lives of our Poets compos'd,
He scarce thought how his own would be hack'd, when it clos'd.
We've had life upon life, without end or cessation,
A perfect biographical superfetation:
Male, female, friend, foe, have had hands in the mess;
And the paper announces still more in the press.—
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Has so many lives, living—as Johnson has, dead.
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