Casting a preparatory glance at ttom of ticle -- as ts, reads, seems as t read not,) never fails to consult t in to be a Vivares, or a oollet -- methinks I hear you exclaim, Reader, ho is Elia?
Because in my last I tried to divert tten , in an old o decay, doubtless you me doary of tc scrivener -- one t sucks enance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.
ell, I do agnize somet. I confess t it is my of tters requires some relaxation -- (and none better t first sig ab from udies) -- to emplation of indigos, cottons, ra place * * * * * * and t sends you ite to your books * * * * * not to say, t your outside ss, and e o t kindly and naturally, ts, epigrams, essays -- so t ting-, ttings up of an aut -rucks of figures and cyps so at its ease over t-ground of a midnigation. -- It feels its promotion. * * * * * * * So t you see, upon terary dignity of Elia is very little, if at all, compromised in the condescension.
Not t, in my anxious detail of ties incidental to t blind to certain flao pick in t. And o regret tion, and doing-aogetory interstices, and sprinklings of freedom, tter days, noo all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. tephen, and Barnabas -
quot;Andre;
o keep all t sc Cs. I remember token, in tt Prayer Book. ter in ure -- lemy in troublesome act of flaying, after tti. I tion of Iscariot -- so muco keep I a little grudged at tion of tter Jude ities togeto make up one poor gaudy-day betion.
t visitations in a sc;far off t; -- I old you sucs-day falls out next er. Peradventure ty tle better t me not be t to arraign tion of tides to be papistical, superstitious. Only in a custom of sucanding, met sounded -- but I am of my dept to decide ts of civil and ecclesiastical auty -- I am plain Elia -- no Selden, nor Arc present in t of learning, under ty Bodley.
I can leman, enact tudent. to suc food of academic institution, noo ies. tion, too, at time of t ake my ed, and fancy myself of anding I please. I seem admitted ad eundem. I fetc opportunities. I can rise at t it rings for me. In moods of y I can be a Sizar, or a Servitor. rut a Gentleman Commoner. In graver moments, I proceed Master of Arts. Indeed I do not t respectable cer. I acles, drop a bosy, as I pass, aking me for somet. I go about in black, to pass for not of a Serapor.
t times are so mucall trees of Cs, ted, and ing one to slip in unperceived, and pay a devoir to some Founder, or noble or royal Benefactress (t srait seems to smile upon to adopt me for to take a peep in by t tteries, and sculleries, redolent of antique ality: tcc pies uries ago; and spits minister among t is o me tion, and th a Manciple.
Antiquity! t art t, being not every t, t not antiquity -- t not a remoter antiquity, as t it, to look back to ion; to t, jejune, modern! mystery lurks in troversion? or look forry ! ty future is as not is every thing!
[Footnote] * Januses of one face. -- Sir thomas Browne.
ly t o t an accompanying feeling, as t our ancestors o and fro groping!
Above all ties, old Oxenford, arride and solace me, are tories of mouldering learning, thy shelves -
a place to be in is an old library! It seems as ters, t o tory, or middle state. I do not to o profane ts. I could as soon dislodge a so ined coverings is fragrant as t bloom of tial apples whe happy orchard.
Still less y to disturb tiones, so tempting to te palates, do but disturb and unsettle my fait of tnesses mig unimpeacies to Porson, and to G. D. -- Oriel. it into a book. ood as passive as one by to ne ered for a tall Scapula.
D. is assiduous in s to ts of learning. No inconsiderable portion of e fortune, I appre, aken up torneys, attorneys clerks, apparitors, promoters, vermin of ts, quot;in calm and sinless peace.quot; t -- tigation blooucice to ;strike an abstract idea.quot;
D. ells me, tigation into all curious matter connected ies; and ely lit upon a MS. collection of cers, relative to C--, by tle some disputed point --particularly t long controversy beto priority of foundation. ts, I am afraid, met it deserved, eit C--. Your caputs, and tions. -- Contented to suck tains of ters, inquiring into tleies to be impertinent -- unreverend. t muco rake into title-deeds. I gat least so muc a man to complain.
D. started like an unbroke errupted very probable t D. ion to a provoking s-sig of late studies and c t oil) D. is t absent of men. our friend M.s in Bedford-square; and, finding nobody at o t exactitude of purpose ers me in suco record timely or unfortunate visitor -- and takes . Some ter, inies returned o t image of t M.s -- Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar, ty A. S. at riking irresistibly on ting t t;certainly not to return from try before t day ;) and disappointed a second time, inquires for pen and paper as before: again t, and in t above t in o print ) name (scarce dry) looks out upon er e ! -- t may be conceived. D. made many a good resolution against any sucure. I keep too rigorously For o be absent from times (not to speak it profanely) to be present time ion or, being stopped, starts like a t t moment, reader, tabor -- or Parnassus -- or co-spo -- or, on, framing quot;immortal common; -- devising some plan of amelioration to try, or ture meditating some individual kindness or courtesy, to be done to turning consciousness of art so guiltily at truded personal presence.
D. is delig t in suc muc of at Buxton, at Scarborouge. to ;better ters of Damascus. -- On table Mountains; and o serpreter at tiful.