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...the earlier date established for this letter by the postmark makes this theory manifestly untenable. a paltry alehouse you may take the following specimen...room [in] which he lies may be described] somewhat this way. [A] * Window patch'd with paper lent a ray, That feebly shew'd the state in which he lay....

...was too short: you should have given me your opinion of the design of the heroicomical poem which I sent you : you remember I intended to introduce the...window, patch'd with paper, lent a ray, That feebly shew'd the state in which he lay. The sanded floor, that grits beneath the tread : The humid wall with...

...was too short, you should have given me your opinion of the design of the heroicomical poem which I sent you. You remember I intended to introduce the hero of the Poem as lying in I This work was advertised as "speedily to be published" on February 7, in the Public Advertiser (Prior,...