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{233} REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Praise undeserved_.--The correct quotation, referred to in No.

14. p. 222., is

"Praise undeserved is _Satire_ in disguise."

It is by Mr. Br----st, author of a copy of verses called the

_British Beauties_. I cannot fill up the "hiatus," which in

this case is not "maxime deflendus," because I have now no time to

search the Museum Catalogue. I apprehend that the author belonged to

the "mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease," as it is something like

Savage's "tenth transmitter" (which, by the bye, your correspondent,

Mr. Gutch, should have said is _said_ to be Pope's)--his

_only good_ line. Here is my authority:

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