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 that time, and so decided was the opinion concerning the characteristic vices of my style, that a celebrated physician (now, alas! no more) speaking of me in other respects with his usual kindness to a gentleman, who was about to meet me at a dinner party, could not however resist giving him a hint not to mention the "House that Jack built" in my presence, for "that I was as sore as a boil about that sonnet;" he not knowing, that I was myself the author of it.