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 of Greek in one hand, his meerschaum in the other, so far advanced towards the seventh heaven that he would not thank you to call him back into this nether world." Towards the middle of the century we find him a frequent visitor at the chambers of John Forster, to whom he entrusts the Farewell Sonnet to Macready, to read it at the dinner given to the latter on his retirement from the stage, March 1, 1851. He seems also to have been now and then a visitor at the house of Landor, who on one occasion sent him the following playful invitation: