**  If  you  can  obserye  these  conditions,  yo«  will
spare  yourself  and  others  some  pain ;  let  me  not  bo
worked  upon  to  rise  up ;  for  if  X  do.  it  will  not  ba
for  a  littw.  If  you  canmft  obsenre  tiiese  comditioBS,
shall  cease  to  be  oonrespondenta,— but  not
Mends,  for  I  shall  always  be  yours  and  eyes  truly,

«*BnH>v.
"  P.  8.  I  haye  token  these  resolutions,  not  from
any  irritation  against  you  or  yours,  but  simply  upon
reflection  that  all  reafing,  either  praise  or  censure,
of  myself  has  done  me  harm.  When  I  was  ia
Switzerland  and  Greece,  I  was  out  of  the  way  of
hearing  either,  and  how  I  ufrote  <Asrv/— in  Italy  1
am  out  of  the  way  of  it  too;  but  Utterly,  partly
through  my  frtult,  and  partly  through  your  mmdusm


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BYEON'8  WORKS.
in  wishing  to  send  me  the  netveH  and  most  periodi-
cal publications,  I  have  had  a  crowd  of  Reviews,
&c.,  thrust  upon  me,  which  have  bored  me  with
their  jargon,  of  one  kind  or  another,  and  taken  off
my  attention  Trom  greater  objects.  You  have  also
Bent  me  a  parcel  of  trash  of  poetry,  for  no  reason
that  I  can  conceive,  unless  to  provoke  me  to  write
a  new  *  English  Bards.'  Now  this  I  wish  to  avoid  ;
for  if  ever  1  do,  it  will  be  a  strong  production ;  and
I  desire  peace  as  long  as  the  fools  will  keep  their
nonsense  out  of  my  way."


LETTER  DXXV.
TO  MR.  MOORE.
97, 18n.
