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yr delightful letters: but If \I/ have not conversed with you, believe me you have formed the most frequent subject of our conversation, & we have been employed in your Service. – Romney, tho’ He has neither oil nor Canvass, [sic] has made a little coloured sketch for you of the Poet, to whom you are so partial: but I must not quit the more interesting Subject of yr Elegy without telling you, that we are all charmed with the additional Stanza on<u> yourself</u>, & that we are perfectly convinced the whole Poem, when you have completed it, will be truely [sic] worthy of our favourite elegiac Muse; in which character, by the way, the amiable & modest Wright should execute the portrait you say He | yr delightful letters: but If \I/ have not conversed with you, believe me you have formed the most frequent subject of our conversation, & we have been employed in your Service. – Romney, tho’ He has neither oil nor Canvass, [sic] has made a little coloured sketch for you of the Poet, to whom you are so partial: but I must not quit the more interesting Subject of yr Elegy without telling you, that we are all charmed with the additional Stanza on<u> yourself</u>, & that we are perfectly convinced the whole Poem, when you have completed it, will be truely [sic] worthy of our favourite elegiac Muse; in which character, by the way, the amiable & modest Wright should execute the portrait you say He |
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yr delightful letters: but If \I/ have not conversed with you, believe me you have formed the most frequent subject of our conversation, & we have been employed in your Service. – Romney, tho’ He has neither oil nor Canvass, [sic] has made a little coloured sketch for you of the Poet, to whom you are so partial: but I must not quit the more interesting Subject of yr Elegy without telling you, that we are all charmed with the additional Stanza on yourself, & that we are perfectly convinced the whole Poem, when you have completed it, will be truely [sic] worthy of our favourite elegiac Muse; in which character, by the way, the amiable & modest Wright should execute the portrait you say He