| p. July 3
Dr Ergoon Ripley?
Yes, my dear Nephew, our roads are so diverse, that
the very contract renders an intercourse maturable &
the better for the one who in the deepening shadow
of the vale of unvaried obscurity loves to look up and
mark the ascending progress of youth unshorn of hope &
friendship. My favourite mountain, illumined with the sun never looks so pictur-
esque as when contrasted with the still water and
silent shades at its feet. Yet in the "broad field of sen-
timent I flatter one, we can sympathise - there is a
ray in me which tho' forbidden yet to thine I feel was
lighted at thy Gods and mine. The straw which
floats on the stream becomes at lenght to ?blend with
the lilly or rise with the willow w/h adorns its banks.
And pride after indeminifys itself by this involuntary
voyage on the tide of life, while others are piloting
with eagerness the lofty bank.
Thank you for all and
"the gossip" too. Very trifling truly you treat it. Ah
my dear friend, Cupid has often played off his ?amours
in the family of Apollo if I remember. Now those
two pair of black eyes are nearly gone. Well I am
glad for that L_'s are out of the way of those I
| p. July 3
Dr Ergoon Ripley?
Yes, my dear Nephew, our roads are so diverse, that
the very contract renders an intercourse maturable &
the better for the one who in the deepening shadow
of the vale of unvaried obscurity loves to look up and
mark the ascending progress of youth unshorn of hope &
friendship. My favourite mountain, illumined with the sun never looks so pictur-
esque as when contrasted with the still water and
silent shades at its feet. Yet in the "broad field of sen-
timent I flatter one, we can sympathise - there is a
ray in me which tho' forbidden yet to thine I feel was
lighted at thy Gods and mine. The straw which
floats on the stream becomes at lenght to ?blend with
the lilly or rise with the willow w/h adorns its banks.
And pride after indeminifys itself by this involuntary
voyage on the tide of life, while others are piloting
with eagerness the lofty bank.
Thank you for all and
"the gossip" too. Very trifling truly you treat it. Ah
my dear friend, Cupid has often played off his ?amours
in the family of Apollo if I remember. Now those
two pair of black eyes are nearly gone. Well I am
glad for that L_'s are out of the way of those I
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