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 clubs, coteries, and newspapers were not—or at the worst were nothing to speak of:

This coupling of injunction and prohibition is worthy of Shakespeare or of Sterne:

The modern poetaster by profession knows a trick worth any two of these: but it is curious to observe the community of baseness, and the comparative innocence of awkwardness and inexperience, which at once connote the species and