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malignity that his employer could wish." Mallet had been a thorough parasite to Pope before, and Bolingbroke was the wretched hypocrite whom Pope, by leaving all his MSS. to him, had made the guardian of his character. No Scotchman would attend Mallet's funeral; but a monument was raised by public subscription to the memory of James Thomson in Westminster Abbey. Mallet's real name was Malloch, and he died in 1765, aged sixty. |
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