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to predicate: let him settle it with his Maker, as I must do with mine. There is something at once ludicrous and blasphemous in this arrogant scribbler of all works sitting down to deal damnation and destruction upon his fellow creatures, with Wat Tyler, the Apotheosis of George the Third, and the Elegy on Martin the regicide, all shuffled together in his writing desk. One of his consolations appears to be a Latin note from a work of a Mr Landor, the author of « Gebir,» whose friendship for Robert Southey will, it seems, «be an honour to him when the ephemeral disputes and ephemeral reputations of the day are forgotten.» for one neither envy him «the friendship,» nor the glory in reversion which is to accrue from it, like Mr Thelusson's fortune, in the third and fourth generation. This friendship will probably be as memorable as his own epics, which (as I quoted to him ten or twelve years ago in «English Bards») Porson said « would be remembered when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, and not till then.. For the present, I leave him.

WERNER;

OR,

THE INHERITANCE.

A TRAGEDY.

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