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REPLY1850

Praise undeserved

By JAMES H. FRISWELL.

The correct quotation, referred to in No. 14. p. 222., is “Praise undeserved is *Satire* in disguise.” It is by Mr. Br——st, author of a copy of verses called the *British Beauties*. I cannot fill up the “hiatus,” which in this case is not “maxime deflendus,” because I have now no time to search the Museum Catalogue. I apprehend that the author belonged to the “mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease,” as it is something like Savage’s “tenth transmitter” (which, by the bye, your correspondent, Mr. Gutch, should have said is said to be Pope’s)—his *only good* line. Here is my authority: EPIGRAM *On…

Topics: Literature, Epigrams, Poetry