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Duke University Library, Southey papers. Previously published: John Wood Warter, Selections From the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), I, pp. 10–13 [where it is dated ‘Bristol, Dec. 1792.’].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am less grieved at my disappointment than for the occasion of it — that vile old grey was only foaled for mischief
so said Horace to the tree that fell upon him — if you like to look at the
original it is the 13th ode of the 2nd
book.
if the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destroyd
(said Dr Pangloss to Candidus) if Miss Cunegonda had not
been ript up alive by the Bulgarian soldiers — if I had not been hung, if you
had not killd an inquisitor & been burnt by the inquisition, we should
not have been now eating pistachio nuts. alls for the best.
___________
You ask me where Tom can be safe
on the continent. I answer in no one place. insurrections are frequently
announced at Brussels & at Berlin & tho’ the intelligence has
been always contradicted it is still more than probably that it will soon
happen. never was there a period more eventful or more astonishing.
Dumourier
is xx the report of the secret
treaty between France & Prussia very probable? if it be so I shall
despise his Prussian majesty
the French have rid themselves of a while of foreign enemies they
will now quarrel among themselves. I long to see their new Constitution. I beg
my best respect to Mr L. & Mrs
Lamb.