27 Albany Street Regents Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12 Aug. 1831<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My dear Sir<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the second Vol. of your “Privileges of the Uni Camb.”” which you were so obliging as to have sent to me, in the Sect. on “Rise & Prog. of Printing”-p.2 note* there are three short quotations from Longinus, Plutarch & Fabricius, of which, if it were not troubling you too much, I should be greatly obliged to you for as close & literal a translation as the idiom of our lang. will bear. As, also, of the quotations from Herodotus, Diod. Sic., Dion, Halic. & Longinus, in the not upon p. 3-of Herodotus note % in p. 4 & a fragment of Euripides note p. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I am not mistaken, some of these passages may furnish important illustrations of some of the principle of that system of Universal prosody which I am endeavouring to develop and mature; & by which I hope to satisfy the learned that the prosody of the English language (& indeed of all prosodic languages-however diversified in the superstructures\/rests upon the same eternal bases & is regulated by the same eternal principles, as the prosodies of Greece & Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am almost ashamed to trouble you on such an occasion, considering that, but for untoward circumstances, I ought not to have been obliged to look beyond my own family for resource on such subjects, but where the interest of science & literature are concerned, –if home resources fail, perhaps one may be excused, for attempting to draw from the comparatively remote circles of friendly acquaintanceship<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wishing you as long a continuance of the comforts & enjoyments of life as the course of nature can permit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remain, my dear Sir,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yours sincerely<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Thelwall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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