excerpt from 'A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770' pp. 36 (127 words)
excerpt from 'A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770' pp. 36 (127 words)
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I have enclosed you a song, and the answer, which are at present the reigning topic of discourse at Canterbury and 15 miles round. If I had not heard you say you were not fond of music, I should greatly regret I could not send you the tune too, for ’tis most enchantingly pretty. Perhaps you will think it odd the answer should be called a Lampoon, but this is a word the most in fashion at Canterbury of any place I know. Every thing that people do not like, or understand, is comprehended under the name of lampoon, whether it be prose, or verse, song, riddle, panegyric, or funeral elegy; and I am persuaded that if Mrs. Squire's book is arrived there, it is called a lampoon. |
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