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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
I must renounce these things to plunge again into the haunts of the law. I go to London to-morrow, leaving a most brilliant company which is now assembling at this favored seat. As ever, affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. P. S. I hope Felton did not burn my letter recounting my Guy Mannering adventures in the Highlands before you read it. I think William Story will be pleased by this woodcock episode. [Professor Felton wrote six inscriptions in Greek (see post, letter of March 1, 1839), which Sumner sent to Lord Leicester, one of which was the following:— oi(/hper *nio/bhs moi/rh toih/de kai\ h(mi=n e)stin o)izuroi=s kai\ maka/ressin dmou= h(mei=s ga\r qa/nomen *xantroi=o be/lessi dame/ntes, ka)n li/qw| a)qana/tous au)to\s e)/qhke pa/lin. It is thus translated by Mr. Muirhead, the compiler of the ‘Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks,’ p. 37:— Happy at once and miserable, we Seem to partake the fate of Niobe; For, perishing by Chantrey's dart, we die, A