Copy 1, Volume 2

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Date:
1834-1847
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Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERCHAPTER V.—p. 84 WHEREIN THE AUTHOR MAKES KNOWN HIS GOOD IN¬ TENTIONS TO ALL READERS, AND OFFERS GOOD ADVICE TO SOME OF THEM. I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, with sub¬ mission to better judgements,—and 1 leave it to you Gentlemen. I am but one, and I always distrust myself. I only hint my thoughts : You'll please to consider whether you will not think that it may seem to deserve your consideration.—This is a taking way of speaking. But much good may do them that use it! Asgill. CHAPTER XLII. P. I.—p. 89. DONCASTER CHURCH. THE RECTORIAL TITHES SECURED BY ARCHBISHOP SHARP FOR HIS OWN FAMILY. Say ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown grey, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark’d The human leaf in constant bud and fall ? The generations of deciduous man How often hast thou seen them pass away! Hurdis.