JAS. CROSSLEY.

[J. G. R., H. C. K., J. MN., H. L., CHAS. PASLAM, J. A. PICTON, A.

E. B., G. S., C. B., SELEUCUS, EDW. S. JACKSON, H. M. A., and many

other friends, have kindly furnished similar replies to T. W.'s

Query, some at considerable length. We have therefore selected the

above, as one of the shortest and first that reached us.]

_Gray and Virgil._--Your correspondent on Gray's plagiarisms (Vol. iii.,

p. 445.) quotes Davenant and Prior as having both forestalled his idea

with regard to _sorrow_, that--

"Where ignorance is bliss,

'Tis folly to be wise."

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