“In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.”

— Samuel Johnson

Stanza 5
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)

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English writer 1709–1784

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