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From Henry Matthew [2 February 1831]

Is in London living in a garret, almost penniless, and has legal and marital difficulties. He hopes to sell some verse.

… Horace , Odes IV. iv. 65 ‘merses profundo pulchrior evenit. ’ The Delphin text gloss reads ‘si mari demergas. ’ The sense is ‘you may plunge it into the deep—it will come up more beautiful. ’ In a letter to Francis Darwin ( …

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