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Huntington Library, HM 4820 . Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), I, pp. 261–264 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Burnett has mistaken my complaint, & you have mistaken my disposition. at
one time I was apprehensive of some local complaint of the heart, but there is no danger of its growing too hard, & the affection
is merely nervous. the only consequence which there is any reason to dread, is that it may totally unfit me for the confinement of
London & a Lawyer’s office. I shall make the attempt, somewhat heartlessly, & discouraged by the prognostics of my medical
adviser.or if xx following xxxx xxxxxxxx legs xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxx
xxxxxxxxx Burnett – & the prospect sufficiently comfortable. I have no wants & few wishes. literary exertion is almost
as necessary to me now as meat & drink, & with an undivided attention I could do much. – Once indeed I had a
mimosa-sensibility, but it has long been rooted out. five years ago I counteracted Rousseau by dieting upon Godwin & Epictetus.
You will by this I suppose have received my volume.
I should much like more reliques of Rowleyr Sayers, has done for Odin.
A man of Lynn,ln in instead of the Monthly Review – but even
her could not endure its stupid malignity & returned to his old one, in spite of the
principles.
You have heard of the Metallic Tractors.
If Burnett had time to spare & were advanced enough in
medical knowledge here would be a fine opportunity for him. the Pneumatic InstitutionI will xxxxxxxxx xxx an outcry
will be raisd against it. they will also find a difficulty in getting patients. even in hopeless disorders people are not fond of
having experiments tried upon them. Davy, the young man who has the management of
the institution, possesses most extraordinary talents. Beddoes speaks of him
with unbounded praise, & he appears to deserve it.
I thank you for your poetry. What is the Burnie-Bee?coccinella, or lady-bird.’ This information was conveyed in a letter from Taylor to Southey, 25
March 1799 (J.W. Robberds (ed.), th century I suppose you altered from Beaumont & Fletcher
for the sake of the parodyth Century’,
th Century’, t Anthony,
Inscription – under an Oak
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We are growling at the Income Billready willing to submit to anything. Edward the Confessor returned a tax to the
people because he saw the Devil dancing upon the money raised by it.