Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 341
had begun. All that is squalid and miserablemight now be summed up in the word poet. That word denoted a creature dressed like a scare-crow. Even the poorest pitied him; and they wellmight pity him. For if their condition was equallyabject, their aspirings were not equally high, nor theirsense of… … Samuel Johnson 309 haunt of beggary and pestilence to another; from GrubStreet to St. Georges Fields, and from St. GeorgesFields to the alleys behind St. Martins Church; tosleep on a bulk in June, and amidst the ashes of aglass-house in December; to die in a hospital, and tobe buried in a parish…
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