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Excerpt from Friendship in Death: In Twenty Letters From the Dead to the Living; To Which Are Added, Letters, Moral and Entertaining, in Prose and Verse; In Three Parts The occafion of her poetical name, Philomela, which, from this time, {he was known by to the world, whether {he ail'umed it hex relf, or was complimented with it by her friends, I have not been able to learn: The latter is molt probable; and that it was given her at the publication of her poems, before which, her modefty not confenting that her own name fhould appear, this was fubfii tuted in the room of it, as bearing a very eafy allu fion to it, and happily exprefling the foftnefs and harmony of her verfes, not lefs foothing and me lodious than the {trains of the nightingale, when from fame-leafy {bade {he fills the woods with her melancholy plaints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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