Note 100 — EPISTLE TO THE REV. DR WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, OF REPTON, DERBYSHIRE, WRITTEN IN 1783.
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l. 2. Western world.—This poem was written in retrospection of that fatal American war, which dismembered the British Empire.
Reading edition
l. 2. Western world.—This poem was written in retrospection of that fatal American war, which dismembered the British Empire.