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MG-A(G.773.005
21 Jan 1773:31 (1428)
[In second essay responding to the dialogue "between two
citizens":] . . . They would have beheld them stretching
from the barrier to the goal with the same unfortunate
speed which is described, with the finest touches of genuine
humour, in the following stanza--
The puzzling sons of party next appear'd,
In dark cabals, and midnight juntos men;
And now they whisper'd close, now shrugging rear'd
Th' important shoulder; then as if to get
New light, their twinkling eyes were inward set.
. . . [4 more lines, attributed to] Thomson's Castle of
Indolence.
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