Much is to be hoped from feelings so strong, and from a mind thus disposed.

I should have entered into particulars with these also, had I seen you after they came into my hands.

Your sister is, no doubt, aware that in her poem she has trodden the same ground as Gray, in his 'Ode upon a distant Prospect of Eton College.' What he has been contented to treat in the abstract, she has represented in particular, and with admirable spirit.

But again, my dear Sir, let me exhort you (and do you exhort your sister) to deal little with modern writers, but fix your attention almost exclusively upon those who have stood the test of time.

_You_ have not leisure to allow of your being tempted to turn aside from the right course by deceitful lights.