We have other officials and other
_litterateurs_ (T.B. Macaulay in his hired villa for one): but
the mind rather shuns than seeks them, one finds solitary quasi-
devotion preferable, and [Greek], as Pindar had it!
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* The late Hon. Edward Twisleton, a man of high character and
large attainments, and with a personal disposition that won the
respect and affection of a wide circle of friends on both sides
of the Atlantic. He was the author of a curious and learned
treatise entitled "The Tongue not Essential to Speech," and his
remarkable volume on "The Handwriting of Junius" seems to have
effectually closed a long controversy.
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Richard Milnes is married, about two weeks ago, and gone to
Vienna for a jaunt. His wife, a Miss Crewe (Lord Crewe's
sister), about forty, pleasant, intelligent, and rather rich:
that is the end of Richard's long first act. Alfred
Tennyson, perhaps you heard, is gone to Italy with his wife:
their baby died or was dead-born; they found England wearisome:
Alfred has been taken up on the top of the wave, and a good deal
jumbled about since you were here.
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