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My very dear Flaxman | My very dear Flaxman | ||
| − | You shall be as solemn - nay I | + | You shall be as solemn - nay I will go infinitely farther & say you shall be as severe as you please \nor ?by/ with yr dear pupil but with his Father <strike>illeg</strike> I trust without exciting in either any sensations towards you except those of the firmest Esteem & of the gentlest Affection. |
When I have the Misfortune to have even a shadow of Misundersting [sic] with a Person so infinitely dear to me as you are I always endeavour to annihilate it by giving full scope to the native Tenderness of my Heart instead of indulging any Suggestions of intellectual Pride — <strike>I will banish therefore from my Thoughts all that relates to</strike> I will not therefore allow myself to recollect that I could easily <strike>support</strike> \corroborate/ by <strike>illeg</strike> an ostentatious display of <strike>much</strike> reading & perhaps by more solid arguments an opinion which I unluckily tested [?] but in the idleness of Pleasantry & in the Frankness of unreserved Friendship without suspecting that it could possibly prove a source of uneasiness — I will rather question myself very strictly to find out what Infirmity in my nature could draw from you a Letter of more Austerity that I expected – <strike>Perhap &c</strike> a reply \letter <strike>in</strike> which tho replying/ to a hope I expressed of enjoying much conversation with you in Town <strike>that</strike> \you/ does not discover the slightest Sympathy in such an <strike>prospect</strike> an Expectation but rather intimated an apprehension that I meant to obtrude advice which you could not possibly want — | When I have the Misfortune to have even a shadow of Misundersting [sic] with a Person so infinitely dear to me as you are I always endeavour to annihilate it by giving full scope to the native Tenderness of my Heart instead of indulging any Suggestions of intellectual Pride — <strike>I will banish therefore from my Thoughts all that relates to</strike> I will not therefore allow myself to recollect that I could easily <strike>support</strike> \corroborate/ by <strike>illeg</strike> an ostentatious display of <strike>much</strike> reading & perhaps by more solid arguments an opinion which I unluckily tested [?] but in the idleness of Pleasantry & in the Frankness of unreserved Friendship without suspecting that it could possibly prove a source of uneasiness — I will rather question myself very strictly to find out what Infirmity in my nature could draw from you a Letter of more Austerity that I expected – <strike>Perhap &c</strike> a reply \letter <strike>in</strike> which tho replying/ to a hope I expressed of enjoying much conversation with you in Town <strike>that</strike> \you/ does not discover the slightest Sympathy in such an <strike>prospect</strike> an Expectation but rather intimated an apprehension that I meant to obtrude advice which you could not possibly want — | ||
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My very dear Flaxman
You shall be as solemn - nay I will go infinitely farther & say you shall be as severe as you please \nor ?by/ with yr dear pupil but with his Father illeg I trust without exciting in either any sensations towards you except those of the firmest Esteem & of the gentlest Affection.
When I have the Misfortune to have even a shadow of Misundersting [sic] with a Person so infinitely dear to me as you are I always endeavour to annihilate it by giving full scope to the native Tenderness of my Heart instead of indulging any Suggestions of intellectual Pride — I will banish therefore from my Thoughts all that relates to I will not therefore allow myself to recollect that I could easily support \corroborate/ by illeg an ostentatious display of much reading & perhaps by more solid arguments an opinion which I unluckily tested [?] but in the idleness of Pleasantry & in the Frankness of unreserved Friendship without suspecting that it could possibly prove a source of uneasiness — I will rather question myself very strictly to find out what Infirmity in my nature could draw from you a Letter of more Austerity that I expected – Perhap &c a reply \letter in which tho replying/ to a hope I expressed of enjoying much conversation with you in Town that \you/ does not discover the slightest Sympathy in such an prospect an Expectation but rather intimated an apprehension that I meant to obtrude advice which you could not possibly want —