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Thursday, November 26th [1813]
Awoke a little feverish, but no headach—no dreams neither, thanks to stupor! Two letters; one from ——, the other from Lady Melbourne—both excellent in their respective styles. ——'s contained also a very pretty lyric on "concealed griefs;" if not her own, yet very like her. Why did she not say that the stanzas were, or were not, of her own composition? I do not know whether to wish them
hers
or not. I have no great esteem for poetical persons, particularly women; they have so much of the "ideal" in
practics
, as well as