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Elizabeth Barrett never forgot the advantages she had derived from the patient kindness and profound learning of the blind scholar, nor did he forego friendly correspondence with his apt and able pupil in after years. She deferred often to his opinion, despite her intense independence, and allowed his somewhat eccentric course of reading to influence her own studies. In later life she addressed three sonnets to this

on "His Blindness," "His Death, 1848," and his "Legacies" to her, which last consisted of his

"The books," she says, "were those I used to read from," thus

"All this time," says Elizabeth, "we lived at Hope End, a few miles from Malvern, in a retirement scarcely