[327—to Thomas Moore]
Sept. 5, 1813.
You need not tie yourself down to a day with Toderini, but send him at your leisure, having anatomised him into such annotations as you want; I do not believe that he has ever undergone that process before, which is the best reason for not sparing him now.
has returned to town, but not yet recovered of the
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. What fellows these reviewers are! "these bugs do fear us all."
They made you fight, and me (the milkiest of men) a satirist, and will end by making Rogers madder than Ajax. I