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Huntington Library, HM 4822 . Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), I, pp. 279–282.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Thank God I am at home. in London I was
perpetually employed & every day fatigued, yet doing
nothing. Burnett left town soon after you. perhaps you
know that he arrived to find his father dying.x. I daily expect to
hear of George
or to see him. he loved his father – & the suddenness of
his loss must have affected him much.
I thank you for the Noachide.positions tradition.among for some of the
sufferers. you are yet hesitating how to employ yourself.
does not this subject suit you? as for hexameters, to send
scattered parties of 20 or 50 or 100 is useless, they will
be cut off. but if we could march an army of five or six
thousands into the country, ably drawn up, they would
maintain their ground against all opposition.
Sir Iwaynein should be
left to inferiour hands. the painter who can design should
not waste his labour in copying. The metrical romance ought
to be revived & Arthurs court furnishes variety of
subject. I should like to see my prophecy of the Chiefs of
Carduel
Lewis, the Monk man, is about to publish a
compilation of ballads. a superb quarto I understand with
prints.wrongs person who had translated Lenora, & to
whom your translation had been attributed, so that instead
of yours he has hampered himself with a very inferiour
one.
I am sorry you did not see the Milton
Gallery.turned fixed upon the divine presence
charactering the inferiour agent. the bridging the abyss;
the encounter of Satan & Death are surpassingly fine.
the Lazar-house a tremendous picture. I judge of pictures
merely by the effect produced on me, without any knowledge
of painting. these delighted me for two hours & I could
have sat there all the day.
My Almanach
I begin now to think seriously of the Dom
Daniel.
My brother is
looking for the Brest fleet.L’Hercule on 21 April 1798,
but he did not become a captain until 1811.