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[Footnote A:]

"For myself, I would rather have written The Mad Mother than all the works of all the Bolingbrokes and Sheridans, those brilliant meteors, that have been exhaled from the morasses of human depravity since the loss of Paradise."

(S. T. C. to W. Godwin, 9th December 1800.) See

William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries

, vol. ii. p. l4.—Ed.

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