I
am preparing to follow them.

"It is awful work, this love, and prevents all a man's projects of
good or glory. I wanted to go to Greece lately (as every thing
seems up here) with her brother, who is a very fine, brave fellow
(I have seen him put to the proof), and wild about liberty. But
the tears of a woman who has left her husband for a man, and the
weakness of one's own heart, are paramount to these projects, and I
can hardly indulge them.

"We were divided in choice between Switzerland and Tuscany, and I
gave my vote for Pisa, as nearer the Mediterranean, which I love
for the sake of the shores which it washes, and for my young
recollections of 1809. Switzerland is a curst selfish, swinish
country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
I never could bear the inhabitants, and still less their English
visiters; for which reason, after writing for some information
about houses, upon hearing that there was a colony of English all
over the cantons of Geneva, &c. I immediately gave up the thought,
and persuaded the Gambas to do the same.

"By the last post I sent you 'The Irish Avatar,'--what think you?
The last line--'a name never spoke but with curses or jeers'--must
run either 'a name only uttered with curses or jeers,' or, 'a
wretch never named but with curses or jeers.' Be_case_ as _how_,
'spoke' is not grammar, except in the House of Commons; and I doubt
whether we can say 'a name _spoken_,' for _mentioned_. I have some
doubts, too, about 'repay,'--'and for murder repay with a shout and
a smile.' Should it not be, 'and for murder repay him with shouts
and a smile, 'or '_reward_ him with shouts and a smile?'

"So, pray put your poetical pen through the MS. and take the least
bad of the emendations. Also, if there be any further breaking of
Priscian's head, will you apply a plaster? I wrote in the greatest
hurry and fury, and sent it to you the day after; so, doubtless,
there will be some awful constructions, and a rather lawless
conscription of rhythmus.

"With respect to what Anna Seward calls 'the liberty of
transcript,'--when complaining of Miss Matilda Muggleton, the
accomplished daughter of a choral vicar of Worcester Cathedral, who
had abused the said 'liberty of transcript,' by inserting in the