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She, too, was much older than I, and a most excellent, energetic,
and studious young woman. I wonder if she remembers how hard we
tried to get
"Beelzebub--than whom,
Satan except, none higher sat,"
into the limits of our grammatical rules,--not altogether with
success, I believe.
I copied passages from Jeremy Taylor and the old theologians into
my note-books, and have found them useful even recently, in
preparing compilations. Dryden and the eighteenth century poets
generally did not interest me, though I tried to read them from a
sense of duty. Pope was an exception, however. Aphorisms from the
"Essay on Man" were in as common use among us as those from the
Book of Proverbs.
Some of my choicest extracts were in the first volume of
collected poetry I ever owned, a little red morocco book called
"The Young Man's Book of Poetry." It was given me by one of my
sisters when I was about a dozen years old, who rather
apologized for the young man on the title-page, saying that the
poetry was just as good as if he were not there.
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