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So on the Satyrane’s Letters:
This is like a diary piece about his trip to Germany: Arrival in Cuxhaven and The Left Bank of the Elbe. Ratzeburg… He discourses on ladies fashion, Thoughts on a portrait of Lessing, German Cooking, Geometry and Literature, The History of German Literature, The scope/purview of The German Language versus The English Language etc. etc.

(Much Enjoyed.)

The talent that is required in order to make excellent verses is perhaps greater than the philosopher is ready to admit, or would find it in his power to acquire; the talent to seek only the apt expression of the thought, and yet to find at the same time with it the rhyme and the metre. […] It is certain that poetry when it has attained this excellence makes a far greater impression than prose -Christian Carve 1779

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