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Thus, the papers in the Adventurer, see signed A, were according to Hawkins, supplied by Bathurst. According to every body else, they were written by Bonne! Thornton.\ The silly story of Goldsmith, and the Duke of JNorthumberland proved to be fabulous, by its obvious anachronisms.—See the date of the poem,and the Duke’s lieutenancy.Verses printed as Johnson’s, to be restored to'Jerningham, C.The base mutilation of Johnson’s text to be correed. 'In the preface to his Shakspere, to be restored, the necessary mention of Mr.Steevens, c. c.All errors of these kinds being reformed, there fken will remain, the vindication of the Knight’s sense and spirit, by the restoration of the money, received from the* booksellers, under the pretence of copy-right, and an ability of being an editor and a writer of English.—Either of which he isnot. ^This money is, mirabile diftu, 200I. If this money be appropriated to a Monument for Johnson, that, and that alone can restore Sir John Hawkins, decent as he may be in other points, to a decent estimation upon this.To console,- for this dreary desolation, there is the promise, of Bosvillc—and in the short interval between, and its performance, there is to♦•via af ^Ktr 7oAw row 3 nfl
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London World Fashionable Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Apr 06, 1787
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