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 think. 'Scribble, scribble, scribble,' as the Duke of Cumberiand said to Gibbon, should be the motto of the mighty 'nineteenth century.'"

"Southey, I think. Grey, is an exception."

"By no means. Southey is a political writer—a writer for a particular purpose. All his works, from those in three volumes quarto, to those in one duodecimo, are alike political pamphlets. Sharon Turner, in his solitude, alone seems to have his eye upon Prince Posterity; but, as might be expected, the public consequently has not its eye upon Sharon Turner. Twenty years hence they may discover that they had a prophet among them, and knew him not."

"His history is certainly a splendid work, but little known. Lingard's, which in ten years time will not be known even by name, sells admirably, I believe."

"I was very much amused, Cleveland, with Allen's review of Lingard in the Edinburgh.