 When I was a school-boy, a relation of mine, long deceased, was so kind as to lend me the original poem of Yarico to Inkle, which he got from an intimate friend, the author of it, who had been dead many years before it came into my handS.  Poems on Several Subjects - Page ixby John Anketell - 1795 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Felsenstein - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 336 pages
...1793 edition, Anketell avows that when he was a schoolboy "a relation of mine, long deceased, was so kind as to lend me the original poem of Yarico to...it, who had been dead many years before it came into my hands." Sadly if also disingenuously, Anketell makes no attempt to identify the "intimate friend."... | |
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