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In this contest between sycophancy and independence, a number of election squibs
are of course put forth by both parties. A certain Poet is said to have taken part in the
literary drudgery of the patronage side of the question, and, in the division of labour, with a
view to that of the spoil—to have taken upon him to find out and expose the bad grammar
of his rude and less classical opponents. incognito)
at one time considered the rustic and the classical in language as the same thing, and
preferred the uninformed idioms of his native county to the poetical diction of
"Whom did the poet intend should be
though of as occupying that grave over which, after modestly setting forth the moral
discernment, and warm affections of its “poor inhabitant,” it is supposed to be
inscribed that
“Thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name.”
“Who but himself—himself anticipating the too
probable termination of his own course?”—P. 27.
Who but