Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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V. Tbe Study of Life in the Study of Shakespeare.
We study life as a whole in Shakespeare-We study it
distributively, impartially, sympathetically-The value of
this study is artistic, philosophic, and practical.
VI. Sbakespeare's Personality.
Biographical sketch -Shakespeare in relation to his coun try- Society- Mankind -His associates and friends, and
their relation to himself- The order and progress of his
genius.
H. GILES.
A LETTER FROM MR. CLAY.
ASHLAND, Ky., September 30, 1849.
My dear Miss Lyncb: Notwithstanding my great repugnance
to letters for my poor autograph, and to idle letters from total
strangers, there are other letters, my dear Miss Lynch, which
I receive with pleasure, as I have yours with more than an ordinary degree of it. It assured me on your part, as I now do on
mine, of the continuance of that friendship which we recently
formed at Newport. And I have to thank you for the scraps
(not of bread, but of praise) inclosed in your letter, in which
you speak in such terms of kindness of me.
Jeremy Taylor has not described ill the sentiment of friendship
in the passage which you have quoted, but its emotions are rather
a proper subject of feeling than of description. If women were
really without heads, as you unjustly estimate, you would coincide in that opinion. Their excellence, I think, consists in their
blending together better than our sex does the impulses of the
heart with the dictates of the head; or, if you please, tempering
the severity of the sovereign head by the affections of the merciful heart.
I returned home about a fortnight ago, after passing through
scenes of excitement, arising from the vast multitudes through
which I passed, that I dare not attempt to describe. I wonder
that I escaped from them with my life unhurt. At Syracuse, on
the morning of my departure, I was locked up with a lady three
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