more earnest and simpleminded. From the very beginning of her literary life, her poetic faculty showed a constant and regular growth in strength and depth; her last writings were the richest and most attractive fruits of her genius. Her friends will never cease to mourn the loss of a personality singularly winning and sincere, which at once compelled respect and affection; and her place [continued on the next page]
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