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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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THIRD AND TENTH SATIRES OF JUVENAL.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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e will not examine here Johnson's poetical merits, since thatdiscussion will more properly introduce his Lives of the Poets, butmerely offer some few biographical remarks. In the poem of London, Mr.Boswell was of opinion, that Johnson did not allude to Savage, under thename of Thales, and adds, for his reason, that Johnson was not so muchas acquainted with Savage when he _wrote_ his London. About a month,however, before he _published_ this poem, he addressed the followinglines to him, through the Gentleman's Magazine, for April, 1738.
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