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Aetat. 30.] with minute exactness, that the peculiar mode of writing, and imperfect spelling of that celebrated poet, may be exhibited to the curious in literature. It justifies Swift's epithet of 'paper-sparing Pope ,' for it is written on a slip no larger than a common message-card, and was sent to Mr. Richardson, along with the Imitation of Juvenal. 'This is imitated by one Johnson who put in for a Publick-school in Shropshire, but was disappointed. He has an infirmity of the convoilsive kind, that attacks him sometimes, so as to make him a sad Spectacle. Mr. P. from the Merit of this Work which was all the knowledge he had of him endeavour'd to serve him without his own application ; cS: wrote to my L gore, but he did not succeed. Mr. Johnson published afterw another Poem in Latin with Notes the whole very Humerous call'd the Norfolk Prophecy .'

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Johnson had been told of this note; and Sir Joshua Reynolds informed him of the compliment which it contained, Rh