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Flatman writes of Chalkhill, 't is in words well fitted to thine own merit: Happy old man, whose worth all mankind knows Except himself, who charitably shows The ready road to virtue and to praise, The road to many long and happy days.
He then comes to another ode, of "The dying Christian to his Soul;" in which, finding an apparent imitation of Flatman, he falls into a pleasing and learned speculation, on the resembling passages to be found in different poets.
Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon Flatman , which I think by much too severe: 'Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains, Flatman, who Cowley imitates with pains, And rides a jaded Muse, whipt with loose reins. I like to recollect all the passages that I heard Johnson repeat: it stamps a value on them. He told us, that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets, by Mr.
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