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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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In
this
Tibullus
I
found
pencilled
on
the
last
page:
"Perlegi,
Oct.
4,
1792."
Who
was
that
possessor
of
the
book,
nearly
a
hundred
years
ago?
There
was
no
other
inscription.
I
like
to
imagine
some
poor
scholar,
poor
and
eager
as
I
myself,
who
bought
the
volume
with
drops
of
his
blood,
and
enjoyed
the
reading
of
it
even
as
I
did.
How
much
that
was
I
could
not
easily
say.
Gentle-hearted
Tibullus!--of
whom
there
remains
to
us
a
poet's
portrait
more
delightful,
I
think,
than
anything
of
the
kind
in
Roman
literature.
An
tacitum
silvas
inter
reptare
salubres,
Curantem
quidquid
dignum
sapiente
bonoque
est?
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