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an early opportunity, and if it should produce any change in my 

 views respecting the subject which Lord Monteagle laid before me, I 

 shall have much pleasure in communicating the circumstance to you. 

 I perfectly recollect having written to Lord Monteagle in reference to 

 yoiu- MS. I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, Geo. Gbote." Macaulay's 

 is a mere fragment ; but it contaias a sentiment tersely expressed : 

 " I have so seldom found that predictions either of great good or of 

 great evil have been verified by events, that I have become philoso- 

 phically indifferent. Kindest love to Selina. Ever yours, T. B. 

 Macaulay." My memorial of Buckle, author of The History of 

 Civilization, is a copy of Allwoerden's Life of Servetus, with his book- 

 plate, showing his shield 'of arms with the motto N'il temere tenta, 

 nil timide, and lais name, Henry Thomas Buckle. I have also his 

 copy of Mcdcolni's Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London 

 during the Eighteenth Century. 



Seven English poets come before us now, in authentic manusciipt 

 relics. — I possess a volume which was once the property of "Words- 

 worth, and having his autograph, W". Wordsworth, on its first title- 

 page. It consists of a number of pamphlets bound together ; one of 

 them is an original copy of the sermon preached by Dr. Sacheverell 

 at Oxford in 1702 ; and which created such a commotion in England. 

 Among the Ecclesiastical Sketches of Wordsworth there is one headed 

 " Sacheverell." We can suppose it suggested by the identical pam- 

 phlet preserved in this volume. I also show a manuscript note of 

 Wordsworth's, acknowledging a memorandum sent to him, pointing 

 out an identity of idea between his — 



" And 'tis my creed that every flower 

 Enjoys tlie air it breathes," 

 and a passage in Ausonius : — " Dear Sir : I was not acquainted 

 with the passage of Ausonius to which you allude, nor with any part 

 of his writings at the time, nearly 50 years since, when composing 

 the lines which you quote. I perfectly remember the very moment 

 when the poem in which they occur fell from my lips, I do not 

 say, my pen, for I had none with me. The passage in Ausonius does 

 not put the case so strongly as mine, as the mere word gaudere is not 

 perhaps more than a strong expression for ' thrive.' The interest you 

 take in this little matter is gratifying to me as a proof of sympathy 

 between us, and emboldens me to subscribe myself, sincerely, your 

 much obliged Wm, Wordsworth, Kydal Mount, Dec. 29, 1836." 



