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pool ; time, new connections and pursuits made us 

 less interested in each other. We met occasionally in 

 London with mutual pleasure, though with not so many 

 ideas in common as heretofore. At lenci^th my fortunate 

 visit to Liverpool, in the planninc^ of which I found all the 

 original friendship and benevolence of his heart exerting 

 themselves as warmly for me as ever, promised the revival 

 of our old attachment through our lives. We parted for 

 the last time at your door. You had witnessed his eager- 

 ness and anxiety to serve me ; nor can I ever forget his 

 benevolent, unobtrusive, and unostentatious hospitalit}', 

 his hearty welcome, the freedom with which he told me 

 all his concerns, and the pleasure he took in recalling the 

 events of our j-outh .... His heart was in no degree 

 worse for living in the world, but in some points I have 

 thought it improved ; this might be owing to a slight 

 cloud of ill-success, which had but too often accompanied 

 his path. He was alwa}-s more successful in serving 

 others than himself" 



Continuing our selections from the correspondence, 

 we find the next letter from Ta}-lor to Philips written 

 upwards of five years later — it is dated Sept. 29, 1779 — 

 when Taylor was about 2 i and Philips about iS. It is in 

 verse, in compliance with the " severe command " of his 

 Manchester friend expressed by Taylor as follows : — 



I must not come in my Old stile 



And trudge on Foot from mile to mile, 



But must on Pegasus be mounted 

 And lucidly gallop on my own Tit. 



The lines go on to give an account of a visit to "a sage" 

 in Liverpool, who had apparenth- undertaken to cure 

 Philips of deafness. This doctor was — 



famous for expelling 

 Diseases from his fellow mortals, 

 Displayed in Letters on his Portal. 



