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Morgan Library, MA 1005. Previously published: Myron F. Brightfield, John Wilson Croker (London, 1940), p. 215 [one sentence only]
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I thank you for your message thro Henry Bedford, & for
ushering my Odes into the Princely, Royal & Imperial presences.xx measure owing to my being too early upon another. – In full expectation of the marriage with the Prince of Orange, I
planned a poem somewhat in the manner of the old poets, consisting of three parts, the Proem, the Dream & L’Envoy; & had got
half thro the task in a manner much to my own satisfaction.
I am going to the press with the concluding volume of the history of Brazil, which includes the whole story of the
Jesuits in Paraguay.xxxx any other is precarious.
The restoration of the Jesuits is one of the most extraordinary events of this fertile age.in as the Protectress of France, &
will have all the credit of giving an heir to the House of Bourbon if the Dutchess of Angoulesme should happen to have a child.xx to amuse his subjects with one. And here at home if Joanna Southcott
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before had I beheld so aweful & so surprizing a sight. The sky overhead was suffused with light, drifting like thin vapour before
the wind; – a bridge of dark an arch of darkness extended across the vale from mountain to mountain, like a bridge, resting
on <upon> Whinlatter on one side, & upon Skiddaw on the other; &
over this bridge the light travelled rapidly in such forms that the servants all exclaimed it was like a regiment of soldiers. These
appearances continued from about 8 oclock till three in three <the> morning. I had often seen the Streamers (as they
call the Northern Lights in this country) before; but never saw any thing like this. It was precisely what the old Chroniclers used to
describe of the march of armies in the air.
But I am trespassing upon one who has little time to listen to such things –