Trip 31 of 5400 collection book38
In a meeting of literati to which both these wits belonged he who had espoused the poets causebook64 having previously desired another member to bring his composition on the carpet no sooner heard it mentioned than he began to censure it with flagrant marks of scorn and with an ironical air looking at its first condemner observed that he must be furiously infected with the rage of patronising who could take such a deplorable performance into his protection. This common consolation to which all baffled authors have recourse was productive of very happy consequences to our bard for though the opinions of both judges concerning the piece were altogether the same the latter either out of compassion to the appellant or desire of rendering his rival ridiculous in the eye of taste undertook to repair the misfortune and in this manner executed the plan.... read all
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