Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ✨ William Lisle Bowles, Alex…

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ✨ William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). A reply to an Unsentimental sort of critic,: the reviewer of Spence's Anecdotes in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!, p.15
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