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Christopher Pitt

"Lines, Written by Christopher Pitt, M. A. Translator of Virgil and Vida, On a Great Shoe being lent him in a Fit of the Gout by Mr. Muston the Grocer. Copied from the Original in his hand-writing." "Thou wide machine! the cripple's standing prop." (37.389). "Pitt suffered from an early age from a severe form of gout, which severely undermined his constitution" (DNB). See also "A Poetical Address from the Rev. Henry Pitt to his Brother


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Christopher, on the latter's close confinement by a most severe Fit of the Gout" (Gentleman's Magazine, 1813,i.539-540).