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Rh By "Dorset downs" he probably meant Mr. Dodington's seat. In Pitt's Poems is "An Epistle to Dr. Edward Young, at Eastbury in Dorsetshire, on the Review, at Sarum, 1722."

Thomson, in his Autumn, addressing Mr. Dodington, calls his seat the seat of the Muses,

The praises Thomson bestows but a few lines before on Philips, the second,

added to Thomson's example and success, might perhaps induce Young, as we shall see presently, to write his great work without rhyme.

In 1734 he published "The Foreign Address, or the best Argument for Peace, occasioned by the British Fleet and the Posture of Affairs. Written in the Character of a Sailor." It is not to be found in the author's four volumes.

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