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186 money, payable at the time mentioned, to any one here that you shall appoint. I am. Sir,

'At Mr. Osborne's, bookseller, in Gray's Inn.'

 1744: ÆTAT. 35.]— does not appear that he wrote any thing in 1744 for the, but the Preface.† His Life of Baretier was now re-published in a pamphlet by itself. But he produced one work this year, fully sufficient to maintain the high reputation which he had acquired. This was The Life of Richard Savage;* a man, of whom it is difficult to speak impartially, without wondering that he was for some time the intimate companion of Johnson ; for his character was marked by profligacy, insolence, and ingratitude : yet, as he undoubtedly had a warm and vigorous,  Rh