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Huntington Library, HM 4821 . 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. 271–276.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Your allegory of the Seasx any I remember to have seen. the negligence of the versification I do not perceive – perhaps from
versifying myself with more negligence than should be allowed. if there be any inaccuracy in the allegory it is making Taste cast a
dwelling eye where Inspiration first waved his seraph wings. The Rovers Apologymetr harmonious if read by one who did not understand the
metre. now when the classical metres are adopted in a modern language the xxx accents should be so
arranged as to produce the xx necessary cadence, tho read by one unlearned. I will try to mould your
sapphics to this. with my own I never yet had patience – but I have a great desire to render the metre popular, not only as it is in
itself beautiful, but as a step toward naturalizing hexameters. does not an English & still more a German hexameter take up a
longer time in repetition than a Greek or Latin one on account of the greater number of letters in the syllables? xx the letters in a line must be nearly a fourth more. – & if could
we retrench one of the first four feet? the metre would not be difficult after one had written a hundred lines.
My Dom Daniel
Beddoes & his young
assistant are doing wonders at the Pneumatic Institution – but not by the gasses.
My brother Tom is with me on his way to London to pass for a
Lieutenancy. he has been helping me to cut up Madocs ships & build xxx galleys with them. There is
a marine on board the Mars who persuaded his father to murder his mother, & then turnd Kings evidence & brought his father to
the gallows.
Barker is painting a picture from Mary the Maid of the Inn, but from what part of the story I have not learnt.
My St Anthony
I am looking with some impatience for your life of Burger. excepting the two Ballads which you translated his other
productions that have been Englished are of no great excellence.
prose plays I apprehend suffer little from translation. it is only Klopstockxxxxxxxxx getatable, or I should ere this have poked my way thro it with a
dictionary.
My Almanachtake employ much time in clearing away its faults. I shall throw in
one of the unpublishd Eclogues you saw.
Mr Maurice writes me a good account of Harry. he finds him sufficiently attentive & that being the case he must get on rapidly.
I shall be in London on May day. if you do not write before that time direct under cover to C W Williams Wynn Esq. Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn. if I can find a companion between the terms I shall take a walk, round Kent, or to see the wonders of Derbyshire.