“O could my feeble powers thy virtues trace, By filial love each fear should be suppress’d; The blush of incapacity I’d chace, And stand—Recorder of Thy worth!—confess’d.” SUCH, as far as can be gathered, or recollected, was the list of the general home circle of Dr. Burney, on his beginning residence in St. Martin’s-Street; though many persons must be omitted, not to swell voluminously a mere catalogue of names, where no comment, or memorandum of incident, has been left of them by the Doctor.…
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