Chapter_1423

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But Juan was received with much “empressement:”⁠—

These phrases of refinement I must borrow

From our next neighbours’ land, where, like a chessman,

There is a move set down for joy or sorrow,

Not only in mere talking, but the press. Man

In Islands is, it seems, downright and thorough,

More than on Continents⁠—as if the Sea

(See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more free.