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REPLY1850

Passage from Burke

By I. H. M. (Bath)

Q.(2) will find the passage he refers to in Prior's *Life of Burke*, vol. i. p. 39. It is extracted from a letter addressed by Burke to his old schoolfellow Matthew Smith, describing his first impressions on viewing Westminster Abbey, and other objects in the metropolis. Mr. Prior deserves our best thanks for giving us a letter so deeply interesting, and so characteristic of the gifted writer, then barely of age.

Topics: Victorian Literature, Historical Impressions

Locations: Westminster Abbey