BLUE-STOCKING HALL.

J. B. NICHOLS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

BLUE-STOCKING HALL.

"From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive :
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

LOVE'S LABOUR LOST.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1827.

BLUE-STOCKING HALL.

LETTER XII.

MR. OTWAY TO GENERAL DOUGLAS.

[In point of time, this letter should not appear till later in the series; but as it is an answer to the preceding, the Editor judged it expedient to insert it in this place.]

My dear General,

Lisfarne.

Ir gave me sincere pleasure to see your handwriting once more; and if I had required any thing beyond the gratification of an assurance that you had not forgotten your old friend, to put me in good humour, the commission which you have given me would secure all the

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