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"THOUGH THOU HADSI MAPE A GENERAL SURVEY

OF ALL THE BEST OF MEN'S BEST KNOWLEDGES,
AND KNEW SO MUCH AS EVER LEARNING KNEW ;
YET DID IT MAKE THEE TRUST THYSELF THE LESS,
AND LESS PRESUME. AND YET WHEN BEING MOV'D
IN PRIVATE TALK TO SPEAK; THOU DIDST BEWRAY
HOW FULLY FRAUGHT THOU WERT WITHIN; AND PROV'D
THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY.
WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE,
FOR OSTENTATION, BUT FOR USE; AND THAT
THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE

A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT GAT.
WITNESS SO MANY VOLUMES, WHERETO THOU

HAST SET THY NOTES UNDER THY LEARNED HAND,

AND MARK'D THEM WITH THAT PRINT, AS WILL SHOW NOW

THE POINT OF THY CONCEIVING THOUGHTS DID STAND;
THAT NONE WOULD THINK, IF ALL THY LIFE HAD BEEN
TURN'D INTO LEISURE, THOU COULDST HAVE ATTAIN'D
SO MUCH OF TIME, TO HAVE PERUS'D AND SEEN

SO MANY VOLUMES THAT SO MUCH CONTAIN'D."

DANIEL. Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Noble
Earl of Devonshire.

"WELL-LANGUAGED DANIEL," as Browne called him in his "Britannia's Pastorals," was one of Southey's favourite poets. Let the above extract speak of the Author of " THE Doctor, &c."

THE EDITOR.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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THE intrinsic beauty, and, what is of more consequence, the moral and religious value of the sentiments contained in "THE DOCTOR, &c.," has called for a new and popular Edition of that work. It has fallen to my lot, otherwise laboriously occupied, to edit it. What is done, ought to be done well, — whether it be so or not, competent readers will be the best judges. Not unversed in books, and familiar with ancient and modern languages as toward circumstances have made me, I trust the endeavour has not been unattained, - though some errors

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Quas aut incuria fudit
Aut humana parum cavit natura —

will unavoidably be detected and charitably overlooked.

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Five out of six, it has been said by those quite able to form an unbiassed and judicious opinion, were assured as to the authorship of "THE DOCTOR, &c." It is now well known that the lamented Southey played with its pages as he did with his kittens,- as a relaxation from his bread-earning and everyday pursuits. It is not too much to say that no one but Southey could have written it. Line upon line, -page upon page, shows the man that feared God, and honoured the King, and loved his Country, and despised all political tinkers, whether in matters ecclesiastical or civil.

The extract following from a letter to Miss Caroline Bowles, — the present no less talented than amiable and excellent Mrs. Southey, and my much valued friend, — contains the most interesting particulars relative to the work. It is dated, Keswick, June, 1835.

"Miss B., who then lived in the next house, was the Bhow Begum. That whole chapter" (that is, Chapter VII. A. I.) " is from the life, and the Book grew out of that night's conversation, exactly as there related. But to go farther back with its history. There is a story of Dr. D. D. of D., and of his horse Nobs, which has, I believe, been made into a Hawker's Book. Coleridge used to tell it, and the humour lay in making it as longwinded as possible; it suited, however, my long-windedness better than his, and I was frequently called upon for it by those who enjoyed it, and sometimes I volunteered it, when Coleridge protested against its being told.

As you may suppose, it was never twice told alike, except as to names, and the leading features. With something of Tristram Shandy, something of Rabelais, and more of Montaigne, and a little of old Burton, the predominant characteristic is still my own."

Though railroads outrun literature, and Mammon has more votaries than religious and useful learning, it says something for us that a book such as "THE DOCTOR, &c." should again be called for, the more so when it is considered that its readers, after all, must be rather fit and few than many. But, well said Walter Savage Landor, "Southey was the first, and remains to the present day almost the only critic, who was constantly guided by truth and conscience. Added to which, his judgment, especially in works of imagination, was incomparably more correct than any other man's."

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It only remains to add that the "AUTHOR OF THE DOCTOR, &c., IN HIS STUDY," and the "SKETCH OF THE BUST," are by Nash, "Edward Nash,"

(as he is described in the Colloquies, i. 238.) "My dear, kind-hearted friend and fellow traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest recollections of my latter life." Both of these are excellent in their way, --but the engraving of the Bust, in the eyes of myself, and Southey's eldest daughter, Edith May Warter, is perfect. "THE VIEW OF KESWICK FROM THE STUDY WINDOW" is by Mrs. Southey, and it is a view not to be forgotten. For the few foot-notes not marked R. S., the Editor is responsible.

I had laid down the pen, when these words of old Fuller (an especial favourite of Southey's)—flashed across my mind. Reader! "NO DISCREET PERSON WILL CONCLUDE OUR FAITH THE WORSE, BECAUSE OUR CHARITY IS

THE MORE." Apply them as thou readest!

VICARAGE HOUSE, WEST TARRing, Sussex,

May 15th, 1848

JOHN WOOD WARTER.

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