QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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Line 5.
Murmuring I hear
The hollow wind around the ancient towers.
These lines were written in a residence among ancient public buildings.
First published in the novel of Marchmont.
Line 5.
The base controul
Of petty despots in their pedant reign
Already hast thou felt;—
This was not addressed to my son, who suffered with many others in an event which will long be remembered by those parents who had sons at a certain public school, in 1793, but to another young man, not compelled as he was, in consequence of that dismission, to abandon the fairest prospects of his future life.
