Oxford, September 28, 1817 My dear Haydon I read your letter to the young Man, whose Name is Cripps. He seemed more than ever anxious to avail himself of your offer. I think I told you we asked him to ascertain his Means. He does not possess the Philosopher’s stone—nor Fortunatus’s purse, nor Gyges’s ring—but …
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To Benjamin Robert Haydon (Margate, May 10th and 11th, 1817)
Margate, Saturday Eve My dear Haydon, “Let Fame, that all pant after in their lives, Live register’d upon our brazen tombs, And so grace us in the disgrace of death: When spite of cormorant devouring Time The endeavour of this present breath may buy That Honour which shall bate his Scythe’s keen edge And …
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