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From this reading (3.)--LYNTON, NEAR LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a church associated with a monastery or convent

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

plural of “admonition” — cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

later than; following

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

fear resulting from the awareness of danger

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a name that has been assumed temporarily

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

take into custody

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

happiness felt in a secure relationship

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

plural of “biographer” — someone who writes an account of a person's life

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

definite but not specified or identified

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a disorderly outburst or tumult

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

plural of “copy” — a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

communication by the exchange of letters

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a small house with a single story

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

past form of “decline” — grow worse

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

a county in southwestern England

From this reading NORTH DEVON.

a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

discovered or determined by scientific observation

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

-ing form of “discover” — discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a specially long, formal letter

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

in a mistaken or erroneous manner

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

plural of “error” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

communicated in words

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

past form of “fail” — fail to do something; leave something undone

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

plural of “fugitive” — someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

the -ing form of “have”

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

possessive form of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the aggregate of past events

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

causing awareness of your shortcomings

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

not exact

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

inflected form of “infer” — reason by deduction; establish by deduction

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

in place of, or as an alternative to

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

people of Ireland or of Irish extraction

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

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From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

possessive form of “lawyer” — a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

a written message addressed to a person or organization

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the literary culture

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

of or relating to or characteristic of literature

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

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From this reading (3.)--LYNTON, NEAR LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

plural of “measure” — any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

plural of “mistake” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a surrounding or nearby region

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

information about recent and important events

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading NORTH DEVON.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

plural of “peasant” — a country person

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

fraught with danger

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the particular portion of space occupied by something

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

past form of “print” — put into print

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a recklessly extravagant consumer

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

interpret something that is written or printed

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a rational motive for a belief or action

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the state of having good sense and sound judgment

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

have faith or confidence in

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

only a very short time before

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

in a serious manner

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

(used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

possessive form of “shelley” — English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

plural of “sketch” — preliminary drawing for later elaboration

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the property of having a relatively small size

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

plural of “statement” — a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

carry out

From this reading Instead of lying in Lynmouth, Mr. Eton’s cottage lay in the neighbourhood of Tintern Abbey, as Hogg might have discovered from the letter in which William Godwin expressed his surprise and regret to Shelley that, after looking at the little house, he should have declined to take it on account of its smallness.

the act of someone who picks up or takes something

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria

From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

which person or people

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.

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From this reading Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s admonitions--Hogg and MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s _Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of the Fugitives.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Hogg having erroneously inferred from certain letters of the Shelley-Godwin correspondence, which he failed to read with lawyer-like care, that Shelley went from the neighbourhood of Rhayader to Lynmouth, in North Devon, in order to settle himself in a cottage belonging to a certain Mr. Eton, at the last-named place, he has been followed in one of the several errors of his book by Mr. MacCarthy, and other biographers, who are scarcely more clever in discovering mistakes in those pages of the lawyer’s narrative, that are altogether accurate, than ready to rely on those of his statements that are seriously inexact.