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LITERARY LIFE.
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"This epistle is all that is come down to us of this voluminous author, and is probably the only thing she ever wrote that was worth preserving, or which we might reasonably expect to reach posterity. Her name is only preserved to us in some beautiful hendecasyllables written by the best poet of his time."

Then follow, on each abbreviation, long and learned notes, full of references to learned authors, altogether very excellent fooling, showing what a clever and playful companion Hannah was. The hendecasyllables were Bishop Lowth's complimentary address.