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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08, Volume II

Note 109 — POPE.

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This weakness was so great that he constantly wore stays, as I have been assured by a waterman at Twickenham, who, in lifting him into his boat, had often felt them. His method of taking the air on the water was to have a sedan chair in the boat, in which he sat with the glasses down. H.

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