Demagogues. I return you my thanks for your favorable opinion of my muse; I have lately been honoured with many very flattering literary critiques, from men of high Reputation in the Sciences, particularly Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie, both
Scots
and of great Eminence as Authors themselves. I have received also some most favorable Testimonies from
Cambridge
. This you will
marvel
at, as indeed I did myself. Encouraged by these and several other Encomiums, I am about to publish a Volume at large; this will be very different from the present; the amatory effusions, not to be wondered at from the
dissipated
Life I have led, will be cut out, and others substituted. I coincide with you in opinion that the
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