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of much too partial defcription; and 

 ftrangely indeed is the talent of finging 

 agreeably attributed 1 to her, who, confcious 

 of total want of voice, never attempted to 

 fmg in her whole life. Amid thefe lateft 

 anecdotes a ftanza is quoted from her 

 " Ode to General Elliot on his return from 

 " Gibraltar," and the quotation has two 

 grofs mifprints, " mduflrious foldier" for //- 

 htftrious foldier, and " honour to the lap of 

 " peace," inftead of, honour on the lap of 

 peace. 



When this fonnet- forgery was contrived, 

 it's writer forgot that (he, whofe name was 

 affixed to it, had, in her Preface to the 

 Centenary oflegitimate Sonnets, which me 

 publifhed in 1798, denied to three alter- 

 nately rhyming ftanzas, clofing w r ith a 

 couplet, all right to the name of that pe- 

 culiar and ftricl: order of verfe. It was 

 therefore moft unlikely that me Ihould hqr- 

 felf affume it for fourteen lines, written on 

 the feeble model which fhehad reprobated. 

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