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stagger her by the number of his Quo::tations, & the bewilderment of some ofhis sentences. — "Do you remember, said he,Scott's beautiful Lines on the Sea? – Oh! whata description they convey! — They are neverout of my Thoughts when I walk here. —That Man who can read them unmovedmust have the nerves of an Aſsaſsin! — Heaven defend me from meeting sucha Man un-armed!" — "What descriptiondo you mean? – said Charlotte. I remembernone at this moment, of the Sea, in eitherof Scott's Poems." "Do not you indeed? — — Nor can I exactly recall the beginningat this moment But — you cannothave forgotten his description of Woman. —"Oh! Woman in our Hours of Ease "Delicious! Delicious! — Had he writtennothing more, he wd .would have been Immortal. And then again, that unequalled, unrivalled Addreſs to Parental affection "Some feelings are to Mortals givenWith leſs of Earth in them than Heaven" &cBut while we are on the subject of Poetry,what think you Miſs H.Heywood of Burns Linesto his Mary?" "Oh! there is Pathos thatto maddens one! — If everthere was a Man who felt, it was Burns. —Montgomery has all the Fire of Poetry,Wordsworth has the true soul of it —

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