the distant approach of things mighty and magnificent, like the sound of harps which I hear before the sun s rising, like the remembrance of Felpham's waves and of the glorious and far-beaming Turret, like the villa of Lavant,[1] blessed and blessing. Amen. God bless you all, O people of Sussex, around your hermit and bard. So prays the emulator of both his and your mild and happy temper of soul.—Your devoted
32.
To William Hayley.
23rd February 1804.
I called yesterday on Mr. Braithwaite,[2] as you desired, and found him quite as cheerful as you describe him, and by his appearance should not have supposed him to be near sixty, notwithstanding he was shaded by a green shade over his eyes. He gives a very spirited assurance of Mr. John Romney's interesting himself in the great object of
- ↑ i.e. Miss Poole's villa.
- ↑ Daniel Braithwaite, for many years controller of the Foreign department of the Post Office, was Romney's earliest patron, when the latter came up to London in 1762; and it was to him that Hayley dedicated his Life of Romney (see Romney, by Humphry Ward and W. Roberts, 1904, vol. ii. p. 17).
