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| − | By your charming Pacquet which arrived here last night, I perceive you have written some very find Things of me to your Friend Mr Whalley, for which I kiss your fair Hand — But you have slandered me most horribly in saying I have no feelings for your favourite Ossian - I am (I assure you) a great Admirer of his sublime Pathos, & I beg you will tell Boothby, that it gives me great pleasure to hear (from a literary correspondence in London) that He is in | + | By your charming Pacquet which arrived here last night, I perceive you have written some very find Things of me to your Friend Mr Whalley, for which I kiss your fair Hand — But you have slandered me most horribly in saying I have no feelings for your favourite Ossian - I am (I assure you) a great Admirer of his sublime Pathos, & I beg you will tell Boothby, that it gives me great pleasure to hear (from a literary correspondence in London) that He is in possession of a new-translated & unprinted Fragment of your wonderful old Bard – I suppose he has gratified you with a Sight of it, knowing yr passion for its author, tho I understand it is not |
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My dear Sister
By your charming Pacquet which arrived here last night, I perceive you have written some very find Things of me to your Friend Mr Whalley, for which I kiss your fair Hand — But you have slandered me most horribly in saying I have no feelings for your favourite Ossian - I am (I assure you) a great Admirer of his sublime Pathos, & I beg you will tell Boothby, that it gives me great pleasure to hear (from a literary correspondence in London) that He is in possession of a new-translated & unprinted Fragment of your wonderful old Bard – I suppose he has gratified you with a Sight of it, knowing yr passion for its author, tho I understand it is not