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BPB.774.039
23-30 May 1774:23 (875)
Messieurs Mills and Hicks, Looking over the London Magazine
for December 1st, I came across the following extract from a
late poetical satire, entitled DISCORD: WHETHER THERE ARE
ANY CHARACTERS IN THIS METROPOLIS TO WHICH THE LINES WILL
APPLY. The reader is left to determine. Your's, [signed]
Observator.
Him with her choicest gifts shall factions grace,
Mark with impenetrable bronze his face:
Give the shrewd shrug, the wily, wary tear,
The vaunting vein, that wins the vulgar ear;
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