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intimacy which has connected the names of Pope and 

 Warburton, so that they never will be dissevered. 

 There also was often to be found Fielding, whose resi- 

 dence, indeed, for many years was at Bath and in its 

 vicinity: [39] and there, too, Smollett, who thus 

 became acquainted with the local peculiarities of 

 Bath, which he has so humorously represented in 

 one of his most popular novels. 



When Allen was gone, — ^Allen the kind and the 

 good, — the house of Sm John Miller at Bath-Easton 

 became the centre of the lighter literature of Bath. 

 But Lady MiUer lived in perhaps the least fortunate 

 age of English poetry, and the contributions to the 

 Vase are now rather sought for as monuments of 

 a taste which happily soon passed away, than as 

 contributions of value to the literature of the 

 country. 



And here a multitude of names crowd upon the 

 memory. But to enumerate all the inhabitants of 

 this gay and populous city who are connected with 

 the lighter and more elegant literature of England, or 

 all the playful works of which the peculiarities of this 

 city have been the theme, [40] would be a vain and 

 endless task. Nor would I occupy the time of such 

 an assembly as-this with any attempt at discriminating 

 the various and often striking merit of the Sheridans, 



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