Oh, and Peter Blagden too.

"' 'Talking of Dr. Blagden's copiousness and precision of communication, Dr. Johnson said, "Blagden, Sir, is a delightful fellow[105].

"' 'Talking of Dr. Blagden's copiousness and precision of communication, Dr. Johnson said, "Blagden, Sir, is a delightful fellow[105].

Blagden says justly, that it is a new kind of libel, by which you may abuse anybody, by saying some dead person said

This was confirmed by the ingenious experiments of Dr. Blagden, published in 1781, who found that the water of the Gulf-stream was from six to eleven degrees warmer than the water of the sea through which it ran; which must have been occasioned by its being brought from a hotter climate.

The gardens stretch northward to the confines of Peter Blagden's estate of Gridlington; and for my partunless it were that primitive garden that Adam lostI can imagine no goodlier place.

On Sabbath morning the 11th of April I preached for the Rev. Mr. Blagden, in the Old South Church.

The next day the Rev. Mr. Blagden accompanied us to see the Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind.

Judges: Thomas Blagden, Dr. Henry Haw, and Abner Shoemaker.

Mrs. Parminster, Koninster, Somerset. Mrs. Parsons, Blagden, Somerset.

BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1. BLAGDEN, Dr., iv.

105, n. 2; Beckford's Bribery Bill, ii. 339, n. 2; speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; tyrannic character, iii. 76, n. 2; Biographia Britannica, iii. 174, n. 3; Blagden on Boswell's Life, iv. 30, n. 2; Boccage, Mme.

'Boswell's Life of Johnson is a new kind of libel' (Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2. Liber.

Her most intimate friend at Florence was a Miss Isabella Blagden, who lived for many years at Bellosguardo, in a villa commanding a lovely view over Florence and the valley of the Arno from the southern side, looking across it therefore to Fiesole and its villa-and-cypress-covered slopes.

Whether the close friendship between Mrs. Browning and Isa Blagden (we all called her Isa always) was first formed in Florence, or had its commencement at an earlier date, I do not know.

But I showed the letter to Isa Blagden, and at her request left it with her.

" Miss Blagden's words would seem to imply that she thought the criticism mine.

"Miss Blagden and Miss Field are staying still with us, and are gone to Siena to-day to see certain pictures (which has helped to expose you to this attack).

"We heard the other day that Miss Blagden had come to stay in London for the winter, so Polly sent a message to her to say how glad we should be to see her.

Pray offer my kind regards to Miss Blagden when you see her, and tell her that I hope to shake hands with her in London this spring.