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Excerpt from The Works of the British Poets, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Vol. 8: Containing the Works of Pope, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Pattison, Hammond, Savage, Hill, Broome, Pitt, and Blair
He was taught to read very early by an aunt, and when he was {even or eight years old, di1' covered an eager defire for information and improvement He firfi; learned to write by copying printed books, which he executed with great neatnefs and accuracy though his ordinary hand was not elegant.
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