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Alluding to Boswell's Life he continued, "Mine should have been, not the droppings of his lips, but the history of his mind." Field's Life of Parr, i. 164. In the epitaph that he first sent in were found the words 'Probabili Poetae. 'In arms, wrote Parr, 'were all the Johnsonians: Malone, Steevens, Sir W. Scott, Windham, and even Fox, all in arms. The epithet was cold.
As for the epithet probabili, he 'never reflected upon it without almost a triumphant feeling in its felicity. Nevertheless he would change it into 'poetae sententiarum et verborum ponderibus admirabili. Yet these words, 'energetic and sonorous' though they were, 'fill one with a secret and invincible loathing, because they tend to introduce into the epitaph a character of magnificence. With every fresh objection he rose in importance.
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