“To Crisp I repair’d—that best guide of my youth,
Whose decisions all flow from the fountain of truth;
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Whose oracular counsels seem always excited
By genius, experience, and wisdom united.
Then his taste in the arts—happy he who can follow!
’Tis the breath of the muses6 when led by Apollo.
His knowledge instructs, and his converse7 beguiles8.”
To this inestimable Mentor9, and to Chesington, that sanctuary10 of literature and of friendship, Dr. Burney, even in his highest health, would uncompelled have resorted, had Fortune, as kind to him in her free gifts as Nature, left his residence to his choice.
But choice has little to do with deciding the abode11 of the man who has no patrimony12, yet who wishes to save his progeny13 from the same hereditary14 dearth15: the Doctor, therefore, though it was to the spot of his preference that he was chased, could not, now, make it that of his enjoyment16: he could only, and hardly, work at the recovery of his strength; and, that regained17, tear himself away from this invaluable18 friend, and loved retreat, to the stationary19 post of his toils20, the metropolis21.

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n.缪斯(希腊神话中的女神),创作灵感 | |
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