[949]. Except perhaps in a letter quoted by Otter, biogr. pref. p. xxvii. (date 1788).
[950]. l. c. p. xxv.
[951]. l. c. pp. xxv and xxvi, which show, however, that at fifty-seven the strength had failed a little.
[952]. “He was not born to copy the works of others.”—Letter in Gentl. Mag., Feb. 1800. See above, p. 7, and Otter, p. xxii.
[953]. Otter, pp. xxi, xxii.
[954]. So he urges Robert continually to “apply his tools.” “I hate to see a girl working curious stitches upon a piece of rag.”—Otter, p. xxvi.
[955]. Gentl. Mag., Jan. 1800, p. 86; cf. Feb. 1800, p. 177; Otter, p. xxvi.
[956]. Monthly Mag., March 1800, Otter, p. xxii. What and where were the pieces we are not told.
[957]. Written in 1772, and republished in Mrs. Barbauld’s series of British Novelists, 1820. Graves lived at Claverton from 1750 till his death in 1804, in his ninetieth year. He became Fellow of All Souls in 1730, and may have known Daniel Malthus at Oxford.
[958]. Whom he names and quotes freely. Tucker, in Light of Nature, shows the same open dislike of them, but with much more good-humour and taste.