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N. & Q., a communication from MR. CROSSLEY, which states correctly all the foregoing circumstances, with the addition, that the verses appeared as _Aaron Hill's_ in an edition of his works as early as 1753. Thence arises another discussion; were they Pope's or Hill's? Roscoe thought they were Hill's; MR. CROSSLEY thinks they were Pope's. I think, both from external and internal evidence, that they were not Pope's. But that has little to do with my present object, which is to show how often the matter has been already discussed in
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N. & Q. I must observe, however, that MR. CROSSLEY has fallen into a slight anachronism. He says that the verses were
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N. & Q., of which a _column and a quarter_ is wasted by a correspondent A. T. W., who confesses that he (or she) has _not a modern edition of Pope within reach_, and begs to know whether these verses (repeated _in extenso_)
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