"I thought it a shame that the papers of such a historic family should be dispersed at Sotheby's, as they no doubt would have been.

When this letter was last sold at Sotheby's in June, 1902, a copy of verses was attached beginning There lives at Winterslow a man of such Rare talents and deep learning ... in the handwriting of William Hazlitt.

" Then there is a note at page 10: "Who can account for the eulogies of Blackwood on Sotheby's Homer as compared with Pope's and Cowper's? Eulogy is not reported to be the side he lies upon, in general.

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He too must reel amid the frolic row, Grasp the grand vizier by his beard of snow, And teach the aged man once more to bound amain!" WIELAND, Oberon (Sotheby's tr.).

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Know, if ye rashly venture ere the time, That Oberon, in vengeance of your crime, Leaves you, without a friend, on life's deserted waste!'" WIELAND, Oberon (Sotheby's tr.).

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till ye weary gasp, depriv'd of breath Huon permits himself this slight revenge alone'" WIELAND, Oberon (Sotheby's tr.).

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