this new possession, however, dr. burney could as yet scarcely even view, from his eagerness to bring out the journal of his tour. no sooner, therefore, had he made arrangements for a prolongation of leisure, that he hastened to chesington and to mr. crisp; where he exchanged his toils and

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labours for the highest delights of friendship; and a seclusion the most absolute, from the noisy vicissitudes, and unceasing, though often unmeaning persecution, of trivial interruptions.