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Dr Parker

  

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Dr Parker : 'To Miss Salusbury'

'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek Epigram on Dercylis only of two Lines which the Doctor has here spun into Length. Vide Anthol: Lib: 7.2 & there is some account of it too in Bouhours'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Salusbury      Manuscript: Unknown
  

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