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The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler
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months to reading the Excursion, his letters, &c., with a view to
following up the clue, and I am disappointed though, to say the
truth, the idea of a _crime_ had not flashed upon me when I wrote
to you. How well the works of _great_ men repay attention and
study! But you, who know your Bible so well, how was it that you
did not detect the plagiarism in the last verse? Just refer to
the account of the disappearance of Aaron (I have not a Bible at
hand, we want one sadly in the club) but I am sure that the words
are identical [I cannot see what Miss Savage meant. 1901. S.
B.] Cassell's Magazine have offered a prize for setting the poem
to music, and I fell to thinking how it could be treated
musically, and so came to a right comprehension of it.

Although Butler, when editing Miss Savage's letters in 1901, could
not see the resemblance between Wordsworth's poem and Numbers XX.,
he at once saw a strong likeness between Lucy and Moore's heroine
whom he had been keeping in an accessible pigeon-hole of his memory
ever since his letter about Miss Frances Power Cobbe. He now sent
Lucy to keep her company and often spoke of the pair of them as
probably the two most disagreeable young women in English
literature--an opinion which he must have expressed to Miss Savage
and with which I have no doubt she agreed.

In the spring of 1888, on his return from photographing the statues
at Varallo, he found, to his disgust, that the authorities of the
British Museum had removed Frost's Lives of Eminent Christians from
its accustomed shelf in the Reading Room. Soon afterwards Harry
Quilter asked him to write for the Universal Review and he responded
with "Quis Desiderio . . .?" In this essay he compares himself to
Wordsworth and dwells on the points of resemblance between Lucy and
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