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WRL choose any piece to peruse, 
Then 
I hope you’ll encourage the Poet. 
Other naso! P®™'t, we would willingly transcribe 
't is not “bove-mentioned journal, because 
breathe’ “ ‘'^"“‘Ption of his wanderings. There 
a detestation 'of ' spirit of independence— 
proud scorn nf oiean and selfish, — and a 
lence of the '^ 1 T ‘‘onsidered the overweening inso. 
man We cannot resist the inclination to quote the 
toprhisiaJ::”'’ ■" 
hundrn'T! ^ rooasured the height of an 
number of :;"’ Tf -“-es of tfviee that 
by it? “‘“^^''‘‘■''"b.tations; and what have I gained 
JvnI ^.T ^ y shillings of worldly pelfl but an 
''•rapr:nV'‘'r observation. In this elegant dome, 
sofa*^re r " and stretched on the downy 
the’au '^nughters of wealth and indolence: 
their flowery floor, and niagnifleent couch, 
wirv nttendants ; while, suspended in his 
boverhmf ‘-•oiifines of that sickly 
tbe plleT -^'P-ndrons of his brother artists, 
tbe Ltf:, I’'"" ‘''® ^^nnnding lay, or lanches 
latch ” murmuring shuttle. Lifting this simple 
there .,1^ ^or entrance to the miserable hut, 
dunghin mid ever-moaning disease, clothed in 
ags, and ever shivering over the fireless chimney. 
