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NOTES:-- Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton, by F.H. Markland. 481 Spenser's Monument. 481 Borrowed Thoughts, by S.W. Singer. 482 Folk Lore:--Easter Eggs--A Cure for Warts--Charm for Wounds--Fifth Son--Cwm Wybir. 482 Bartholomew Legate, the Martyr. 483 Bohn's Edition of Milton's Prose Works. 483 Reprint of Jeremy Taylor's Works. 483 Dr. Thos. Bever's Legal Polity of Great Britain. 483
QUERIES:-- Dr. Richard Holsworth and Thos. Fuller. 484 Queries upon Cunningham's Handbook of London. 484 On a Passage in Macbeth. 484 Minor Queries:--As throng as Throp's Wife--Trimble Family--"Brozier." 485
MISCELLANIES:-- Bishop Burnet as an Historian--Dance Thumbkin--King's Coffee House--Spur Money. 493
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 494 Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 494 Notice to Correspondents. 494 Advertisements. 495
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DR. JOHNSON AND DR. WARTON.
"All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue." &c. &c.
Warton died in 1745, and his Poems were published in 1748.
"Let observation with extensive view, Survey Mankind from China to Peru."
Though so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers allude to Charles of Sweden. Thus Warton says,--
"'Twas hence rough Charles rush'd forth to ruthless war."
Johnson, in his highly finished picture of the same monarch, says,--
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