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Excerpt from Letters of Robert Southey: A Selection
What a friendly soul, what a generous hand, what an amiable life was that of the noble Sir Walter! I Will take another man of letters, whose life I admire even more, an English worthy, doing his duty for fifty noble years of labour, day by day storing up learning, day by day work ing for scant wages, most charitable out of his small means, bravely faithful to the calling which he had chosen, refusing to turn from his path, for popular praise or prince's favour - I mean Robert Southey. We have left his old political landmarks miles and miles behind; we protest against his dogmatism nay, we begin to forget it and his politics but I hope his life will not be forgotten, for it is subhe in its simplicity, its energy, its honour, its affection. Lit the combat between Time and Thalaba, I suspect the former destroyer has conquered. Kehama's curse frightens very few readers now; but Southey's private letters are worth piles of epics, and are sure to last among us as long as kind hearts like to sympathize with goodness and purity, and love and upright life.'
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