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SOUTH E Y'S

COMMON-PLACE BOOK

EDITED

BY HIS SON-IN-LAW,

JOHN WOOD WARTER, B.D.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

1849.

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THOUGH THOU HADST MADE A GENERAL SURVEY
OF ALL THE best of men's best knowledges,
AND KNEW SO MUCH AS EVER LEARNING KNEW;
YET DID IT MAKE THEE TRUST THYSELF THE LESS,
AND LESS PRESUME. AND YET WHEN BEING MOV'D
IN PRIVATE TALK TO SPEAK; THOU DIDST BEWRAY
HOW FULLY FRAUGHT THOU WERT WITHIN; AND PROV'D
THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY.
WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE,
FOR OSTENTATION, but for usE; AND THAT
THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE
A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT GAT.
WITNESS SO MANY VOLUMES, WHERETO THOU

HAST SET THY NOTES UNDER THY LEARNED HAND,

AND MARK'D THEM WITH THAT PRINT, AS WILL SHOW HOW
THE POINT OF THY CONCEIVING THOUGHTS DID STAND;
THAT NONE WOULD THINK, IF ALL THY LIFE HAD BEEN
TURN'D INTO Leisure, thou couldst have attain'd
SO MUCH OF TIME, to have perus'd and seEN
SO MANY VOLUMES THAT SO MUCH CONTAIN'D."

DANIEL. Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Noble Earl of
Devonshire." WELL-LANGUAGED DANIEL," as BROWNE calls him
in his "BRITTANIA'S PASTORALS," was one of Southey's favourite
Poets.

JOHN WOOD WARTER.

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paring the sheets for the press, added a few notes on difficult and doubtful passages or expressions, but on consideration I crossed them out. One or two inadvertently remain, which may serve as a sample of others The Index I have taken such pains with as I might.

The lines quoted on the fly leaf from Daniel, I have quoted in the new edition of THE DOCTOR, &c., in one volume; but they seem, if possible, more to the purpose here. The purity of his English weighs with me, as it did with the lamented Southen.

VICARAGE, WEST TARRING, SUSSEX,

April 10, 1849..

JOHN WOOD WARTER

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