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But the Turbulence of my Anger is calmed by the soft magic of yr Verse — | But the Turbulence of my Anger is calmed by the soft magic of yr Verse — | ||
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But the Turbulence of my Anger is calmed by the soft magic of yr Verse —
The Poem delights me more than ever — your Partiality to me will raise Ennemies [sic] against us Both: but I trust their Emnity will never hurt you, & as to myself I shall hardly think any Price too high for the Coronet of Diamonds, which you have placed upon my Head —
A thousand circumstances have prevented my writing to you since I received yr last delightful Pacquet, & the daily expectation of your new Poem was one of the Thousand. But the chief cause of my Silence has been the state of my Eyes, & the load of literary Business, which they are obliged to struggle with, tho very unequally - some kind Friends however came in to the Assistance of the half-blind Hermit - Two excellent Females, the wife of Sandino & Fanny Heron, who are both known to you by name, absolutely took me Prisoner, & conveyed me for 5 days to Chichester, where they insisted on transcribing