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shall not be encroaching on the kindness you have so long shown to me, if I venture to follow it up by placing yours i

warm and sympathetic interest which you took in Oxford matters thirty years ago, and the benefits which I derived personally from that interest, are reasons why I am desirous of prefixing your name to a Tale, which, whatever its faults,

ch, over and above its intrinsic defects, is, in its very subject and style, hardly commensurate wi

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on; but as a description of what is understood by few, viz. the course of thought and state

ncipal characters are imaginary; and the writer wishes to disclaim personal allusion in any. It is with this view that he has feigned ecclesiastical bodies

moreover, when, as in a tale, a general truth or fact is exhibited in individual specimens of it, it is impossible that the ideal representation

roper representative is intended in this tale, of the religious opin

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f 1847, when he was resident at Santa Croce in Rome. Its contents were as wantonly and preposterously fanciful, as they were injurious

uth and probability, and with at least some personal knowledge of Oxford, and some perception of the vari

thrown around the personages introduced into it, by showing, as in a specimen, that those who were smit

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