The book Percy: Prelate And Poet; was written by author Alice C C Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen Here you can read free online of Percy: Prelate And Poet; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Percy: Prelate And Poet; a good or bad book?
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It will be for me and my children and my grandchildren.' But Dr. Johnson, with his straightforward, honest nature, was much offended when he heard of the plot, and desired Boswell to get the letter back. When Grainger's poem * The Sugar Cane ' was read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Beynolds', the assembled wits burst into a laugh at a new paragraph beginning Now, Muse, let's sing of rats, which increased when one of them perceived that the word had originally been mice, and had been altered to ra...ts as more dignified. Dr. Percy supported his friend Grainger by maintaining that originally, in his description of the havoc made by rats and mice, the author had introduced the subject in a kind of mock heroic, as a parody of Homer's ' Battle of the Frogs and Mice.' Subsequently, unknown to Percy, he had been persuaded against his better judgment to alter it, and had thus produced the line that diverted the wits. 182 PERCY, PRELATE AND POET In his printed work, however, the whole passage was altered, and the offending rats were merely mentioned as ' whisker'd vermin.' Johnson objected to the title of ' Sugar Cane,' and said one might as well write of a • Parsley-bed ' or * Cabbage Garden.' He declared that Dr.
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