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182 and, 'A Latin Translation of Pope's Verses on his Grotto ;'* and, as he could employ his pen with equal success upon a small matter as a great, I suppose him to be the authour of an advertisement for Osborne, concerning the great Harleian Catalogue. But I should think myself much wanting, both to my illustrious friend and my readers, did I not introduce here, with more than ordinary respect, an exquisitely beautiful Ode, which has not been inserted in any of the collections of Johnson's poetry, written by him at a very early period, as Mr. Hector informs me, and inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine of this year.

'Friendship, peculiar boon of heav'n,
 * The noble mind's delight and pride,

To men and angels only giv'n,
 * To all the lower world deny'd.

While love, unknown among the blest,
 * Parent of thousand wild desires,

The savage and the human breast
 * Torments alike with raging fires;

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