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Re: bbb convert
Feel free, but my favorite version of that was Sheridan's "easy writing's vile hard reading".
I'd recalled that as being a quote of Johnson by Boswell, but when I tried to confirm it, I got pointed to Sheridan's "Clio's Protest", a poem that at first glance seems to have little to offer besides that quote. I know I never read that poem: I think I would have remembered such felicities as "Shall he whose soul perspires with feeling,
Be interrupted by the spelling?
Or when enraptur'd, stop to hammer
Those raptures into dirty grammar?"
Of course, now I wonder, did Sheridan's peers say 'felling' for "feeling", or was it 'speeling' for "spelling"?
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