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M. U."
In the next specimen we shall see the faculty of imparting interest to
the most trivial incident by the way of telling it. The incident in
this case is one which also forms the subject of the little poem called
_The Colubriad_.
To THE REV. WILLIAM UNWIN.
"_Aug. 3rd_, 1782.
"MY DEAR FRIEND,--Entertaining some hope that Mr. Newton's next letter
would furnish me with the means of satisfying your inquiry on the
subject of Dr. Johnson's opinion, I have till now delayed my answer to
your last; but the information is not yet come, Mr. Newton having
intermitted a week more than usual since his last writing. When I
receive it, favourable or not, it shall be communicated to you; but I
am not very sanguine in my expectations from that quarter. Very
learned and very critical heads are hard to please. He may perhaps
treat me with levity for the sake of my subject and design, but the
composition, I think, will hardly escape his censure. Though all
doctors may not be of the same mind, there is one doctor at least, whom
I have lately discovered, my professed admirer.
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